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Last refreshed on: 3 May 2021
Main ID:  NCT03201263
Date of registration: 19/06/2017
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Public title: Sigh in Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure PROTECTION
Scientific title: PRessure suppOrT vEntilation + Sigh in aCuTe hypoxemIc respiratOry Failure patieNts (PROTECTION): a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Date of first enrolment: December 20, 2017
Target sample size: 258
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03201263
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
China France Germany Greece Italy Spain United Kingdom
Contacts
Name:     Tommaso Mauri, MD
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Affiliation:  Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
Name:     Laurent Brochard, MD
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Affiliation:  St Michael Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- patients intubated since >24 hours and =7 days,

- undergoing PSV since >4 and =24 hours,

- PaO2/FiO2 ratio =300 mmHg (measured at clinical positive end-expiratory pressure
[PEEP] and FiO2 values)

- clinical PEEP =5 cmH2O,

- Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) value of -2 to 0

Exclusion Criteria:

- patients with PEEP =15 cmH2O;

- PaCO2 >60 mmHg;

- Arterial pH <7.30;

- Age <18 year-old;

- PaO2/FiO2 ratio =100 mmHg (measured at clinical PEEP and FiO2 values);

- central nervous system or neuromuscular disorders;

- history of severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or fibrosis;

- AHRF fully explained by cardiac failure or fluid overload (e.g., left ventricle
ejection fraction =40% with no other risk factor);

- impossibility to titrate sedation to desired RASS value of -2 to 0;

- evidence of active air leak from the lung (e.g., pneumothorax);

- cardiovascular instability (e.g., systolic blood pressure [SBP] <90 mmHg despite
vasopressors);

- clinical suspect of elevated intracranial pressure;

- extracorporeal support;

- moribund status;

- refusal by the attending physician.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Ventilator Lung
Respiratory Failure
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Intervention(s)
Procedure: Sigh
Procedure: Standard of care
Primary Outcome(s)
Clinical feasibility of PSV+Sigh vs. standard of carde (PSV) [Time Frame: 2 years]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Mortality [Time Frame: 2 years]
Quantification of the prevalence of Sigh responders [Time Frame: 2 years]
Ventilator-free days [Time Frame: 2 years]
Number of days on assisted ventilation until day 28 [Time Frame: 28 days]
Clinical safety of PSV+Sigh comparing adverse events between 2 groups [Time Frame: 2 years]
Patients' comfort by visual analog scale [Time Frame: 2 years]
Secondary ID(s)
Sigh study
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
University of Milano Bicocca
University of Milan
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Ethics review
Results
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