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Sedation and Ease of Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation

Daily Interruption of Sedation Versus Non Sedation in Mechanically Ventilated Respiratory Failure Patients

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03406936
Enrollment
100
Registered
2018-01-23
Start date
2016-08-20
Completion date
2017-10-30
Last updated
2018-01-23

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Midazolam Overdose, Respiratory Failure, Weaning Failure

Brief summary

Daily interruption of sedation is one of the modalities which is known to enhance early weaning and separation from mechanical ventilation . Daily sedation interruption is also known to help decreasing incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia. The new modality is no sedation.

Detailed description

there is an increase of incidence of chronic obstructive lung disease associated respiratory failure which necessitates invasive mechanical ventilation. It is well known that one of the bundles for enhanced recovery of such cases is the daily interruption of sedation . Recently studies have demonstrated the feasibility of just using sedation for initiation of mechanical ventilation, then utilization of no sedation technique as a more this offers less side effects .

Interventions

DRUGDaily interruption of midazolam

daily at 7 am midazolam infusion will be stopped spontaneous breath trial will be done

Sponsors

Assiut University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Obstructive lung disease * Respiratory failure * Invasive mechanical ventilation

Exclusion criteria

* Neurological deficit * Cognitive dysfunction * Extensive malignancy * septic Shock

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
duration of mechanical ventilationfirst 30 daysnumber of days of mechanical ventilation

Countries

Egypt

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026