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Weaning Protocol for High-flow Nasal Oxygen Therapy in Intensive Care

Weaning Protocol for High-flow Nasal Oxygen Therapy in Intensive Care: A Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06104956
Acronym
HiFloWEAN
Enrollment
370
Registered
2023-10-27
Start date
2024-02-17
Completion date
2027-03-31
Last updated
2025-07-30

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

Conditions

Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure, High-flow Nasal Oxygen Therapy

Brief summary

High-flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNO) is an oxygenation technique frequently used in intensive care. The main objective of our study is to show that the use of a protocol for weaning patients off high-flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNO) in the intensive care unit increases the probability that patients will be weaned from HFNO at Day 7 post-randomisation. This is a open-label multicentre randomised controlled trial conducted in two parallel groups. The primary endpoint is the success rate at Day 7, with success defined as definitive weaning from HFNO, i.e. patients weaned from HFNO for more than 48 hours without recourse to non-invasive ventilation (NIV) or intubation and still alive at Day 7. The weaning protocol will be started as soon as the patient meets all the inclusion criteria, considered to be the prerequisites for initiating weaning from HFNO. Patients will be monitored until Day 28 maximum.

Interventions

DRUGHFNO weaning protocol

Algorithm based on SpO2 values and respiratory rate: a decrease of FiO2 and of the flow will be done

DRUGHFNO Standard of care

Weaning methods will be left to the free choice of the practitioner.

Sponsors

University Hospital, Tours
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Major patient admitted to the intensive care unit or continuous care unit for de novo hypoxaemic acute respiratory failure (with a PaO2/FiO2 ratio \<300 mmHg) * Treated with HDNO for at least 24 hours in an intensive care unit or continuous care unit * Treated with HFNO with a flow rate ≥ 50L/min and inspired oxygen fraction (FiO2) ≥ 0.5, at inclusion * With a ROX index (SpO2/FiO2/Respiratory Rate) stable or improving in the 6 hours prior to inclusion and greater than 4.88 (the patient must not be in a worsening phase). * Had a blood gas test under HFNO within 24 hours of inclusion * Participant covered by or entitled to social security * Informed consent signed by the patient or its relatives if the patient is incapable; this consent must then be confirmed by the patient as soon as possible

Exclusion criteria

* Presence of a patient included in the study and not weaned off HFNO in the sector managed by the nurse of the patient assessed for eligibility * Concomitant non-invasive ventilation treatment * Use of HFNO within 7 days of extubation * Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Gold grade 3 or 4) * Cardiogenic acute pulmonary oedema as the main cause of acute respiratory failure * Diffuse interstitial lung disease as a medical history * Patient with long-term non-invasive ventilation with external positive pressure * Patient on long-term oxygen therapy at home * Pregnant women, women in labour and breastfeeding mothers * Persons deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, persons hospitalised without consent and persons admitted to a health or social establishment for purposes other than research. * Minor * Adult subject to a legal protection measure (guardianship, curators, person under court protection) * Patient with a medical decision not to intubate * Patients already included in the study, neither for the same stay if they were to present the inclusion criteria again, nor for subsequent stays

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
The success rate at Day 7At day 7Success being defined as definitive weaning from HFNO, i.e. a patient weaned for more than 48 hours from HFNO without recourse to non-invasive ventilation or intubation and still alive at Day 7.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Time to definitive weaning from HFNOFrom randomisation to day 28
Cumulative incidence of intubationFrom randomisation to day 28
Cumulative incidence of use of curative non-invasive ventilationFrom randomisation to day 28
Mortality rate at day 28At Day 28
Number of days on HFNO for patients definitively weaned from HFNOFrom randomisation to discharge from intensive care or at Day 28
High-flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNO) weaning rate at day 28At day 28
Changes in the use of accessory respiratory musclesFrom randomisation to discharge from intensive care or to Day 28Using the Patrick score (Score from 0 to 5)
Progression of dyspnoeaFrom randomisation to discharge from intensive care or to Day 28Assessed by the modified Borg scale (scale from 0 to 10)
Intensive care unit and/or continuous monitoring unit length of stayFrom randomization until the date of discharge, assessed up to 28 days maximum
Intensive care unit and/or continuous monitoring unit length of stay or time to ICU discharge readinessFrom randomization until the date of discharge OR ability to be discharged from intensive care, assessed up to 28 days maximumThe ability to go out will be defined by the validation of all the items on the modified ability grid (score modified from Hiller et al. ; 28 items)
Changes in the ROX index during the weaning phaseFrom randomisation to day 28ROX index : \[(SpO2/FiO2)/respiratory rate\]

Countries

France

Contacts

Primary ContactMai-Anh NAY, MD
mai-anh.nay@chr-orleans.fr02.38.51.44.46
Backup ContactMarie LECLERC
m.leclerc@chu-tours.fr02.47.47.46.64

Outcome results

None listed

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