Active clinical trials for "Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn"

The objective of this work is to compare standard intubation with video laryngoscope (Glide scope Ranger ) in French pre hospital multicentric study.

In Canada each year, there are approximately 800 infants born between 28 and 32 weeks gestation. Up to 60% of these infants will require breathing tube placement for Respiratory Distress Syndrome or RDS. RDS is a lung disease of prematurity due to a lack of a compound called surfactant. The breathing tube is placed as a conduit for placing surfactant into the babies' lungs to improve the lung disease. Most babies are then placed on a breathing machine or ventilator. Ventilation is not without harm and can be associated with lung damage, delays in feeding, increased hospital stay and interruption of bonding. An alternative that does not require the presence of a breathing tube is Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). We will randomize babies to either ventilation or CPAP to try to minimize the length of time the baby is kept on respiratory support.

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of a 15-week home telerehabilitation program and a detraining period on cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular efficiency in patients with post-COVID-19 sequelae compared to a control group of COVID-19 patients. We hypothesize that cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular efficiency significantly improve in patients who carry out the home telerehabilitation program. However, the cardiorespiratory and muscular adaptations achieved and tolerance to exercise are lost over time as an effect of detraining.

The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of online formative feedback and debriefing on nursing and medical students enrolled in the HBB course in comparison to traditional face-to-face feedback. The working hypothesis is that online feedback and debriefing during hands-on training sessions are as effective as face-to-face feedback and debriefing in teaching clinical skills to medical and nursing students.

The study design will allow investigators to describe usual care in each PICU and identify the facilitating and restraining factors impacting the implementation of R2 at each PICU. The purpose of this pilot study is to improve the care, environment, daily routine and sleep patterns of children in the PICU. The goal of this study is to learn what can be improved to support a critically ill child's healing and circadian rhythms.

The recruitment strategy in Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients mechanically ventilated combines recruitment maneuvers and positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP). Recruitment maneuvers promote alveolar recruitment leading to increased end-expiratory lung volume in order to prevent repetitive opening and closing of unstable lung units and reduce the strain induced by ventilation. In addition, recruitment is effective in improving oxygenation. Variety of recruitment maneuver have been described, the most commonly used is the application of sustained continuous positive airway pressure at 40 cmH2O for 40 seconds. Staircase recruitment maneuver (SRM) is an alternative with good hemodynamic tolerance. Staircase recruitment maneuver (SRM) involves a progressive increase in positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) (up to 40 cmH2O), in pressure control ventilation, in order to increase end-expiratory lung volume (EELV); then a decreasing PEEP trial is performed. The positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) to prevent alveolar collapse depends on ratio between lung elastance and chest wall elastance. If chest wall elastance is high, the PEEP to obtain a positive end-expiratory transpulmonary pressure is high. The only way for the time being to know the transpulmonary pressure and the ratio between lung and chest wall elastance is the use of esophageal catheter. A non-invasive method for measuring the lung elastance by measuring volume recruited during a change of pressure (∆PEEP/∆EELV) could be used to avoid the use of esophageal catheter.

We project to test the effect of prone position on mortality in severe ARDS patients (PaO2/FiO2<150 with FiO2 > or = 0.6 and positive end-expiratory pressure > or = 5 cmH2O). Ventilator will be set in accordance with current standards aiming at protecting the lungs from VALI. Patients will be randomized into two arms: prone group in which proning will be realized for at least 16 hours a day and supine group in which patients will stay in a semi-recumbent position. Primary end-point is 28-day mortality of all causes. Secondary end-points are 90-day mortality of all causes and incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia. Study sample was calculated to detect ability of proning to reduce mortality from 60 to 45% percent, at one-tailed alpha error of 5% and power of 90% and 230 patients are needed in each arm.

OBJECTIVES: I. Describe the psychosocial response of parents and caretakers who learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques for infants at high risk for respiratory or cardiac arrest. II. Compare the effect of 4 methods of CPR instruction on psychosocial response. III. Evaluate a psychological intervention based on social support theory designed to offset the potential adverse psychological outcomes of CPR instruction. IV. Evaluate a self-paced CPR learning module using the principles of adult learning theory. V. Document the level of CPR knowledge and skill retention over time. VI. Document the frequency of CPR and its outcome following a witnessed respiratory or cardiac arrest.

With this research, we are aiming at finding out the effectiveness of prone positioning in this region population affected by moderate pneumonia due to covid 19 infection so that the hospital staff and doctors may be encouraged with facts and data to use such an easy maneuver to stabilize patient's oxygen saturation as we believe that prone positioning does have a protective effect against severe disease and has an effect on reducing mortality if patients are encouraged for prone positioning with proper technique and for suitable time duration as has been observed in the clinical practice in the covid wards. Therefore, we want to assess the effects of 8 hours per day prone positioning the patients with confirmed covid pneumonia admitted in the covid wards.

Although there is a widespread use of HighFlow therapy around the world, there is still uncertainty about the most appropriate initial HighFlow level after nasal continuous positive airway pressure therapy. Higher levels might produce excessive and harmful intra-alveolar pressures exceeding those reached during nasal continuous positive airway pressure therapy. Low levels may not generate sufficient distending pressures, which may result in a loss of functional residual capacity and an increased risk of respiratory failure. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess the effect of different HighFlow levels on the functional residual capacity and to compare these findings to the functional residual capacity during nasal continuous positive airway pressure therapy.