Respiratory Failure
Conditions
Keywords
Acute respiratory failure patients in medical ICUs.
Brief summary
This is a Quasi-experimental research design. The subjects are limited in intensive care unit within north medical center hospital. All subjects depend on ventilator and receive weaning plans. Experimental group is weaning with the support of negative pressure ventilator .The investigators collect basic personal variables in the questionnaire, APACHE Ⅱ scale, Dyspnea scale and arterial blood gas analysis and ventilator weaning index. Compare experimental group and control group data. Data will be Statistical analyzed by: descriptive statistics (such as: mean, standard deviation, median, frequency, percentage) and inferential statistics (such as: Independent T-test, Pair T-test, Mann-Whitney U test), P-value \<0.05 will consider to be statistically significant.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALnegative pressure ventilator use
Body ventilators that assist ventilation by applying intermittent subatmospheric pressure around the thorax, abdomen, or airway and periodically expand the chest wall and inflate the lungs. They are relatively simple to operate and do not require tracheostomy. Chest cuirass is used in this study.
Sponsors
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Acute respiratory failure patients in medical ICUs
Exclusion criteria
* Age\<20 years old * Malignancy * Pregnancy
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Ventilator weaning rate | 28 days |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| ICU stay | 28 days |
Countries
Taiwan
Contacts
Primary ContactHorng-Chyuan Lin
Outcome results
None listed