Pulmonary Function During Prone and Supine Positioning in NICU Infants Requiring Assisted Ventilation

Withdrawn before enrolling

Conditions studied: Pulmonary Function

In brief

This study seeks to determine in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) patients specific improvements in pulmonary function which may occur when an infant is ventilated in the prone as compared to the supine position. Modest improvement in oxygen has been reported to occur with prone positioning, but the exact etiology for this change is not clear. A special incubator designed as an integrated care system allows routine care and the measurement of both patient and ventilator breaths during mechanical ventilation. This study will utilize this device to evaluate in NICU ventilated patients whether specific changes in pulmonary function accompany position changes, and whether these are correlated to a change in pulmonary gas exchange.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00749762

Run by

University of Utah

People needed

0

Starts

2002-10-01

Expected to finish

2010-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-05-05

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Any NICU patient who does not have a major congenital anomaly and is on assisted mechanical ventilation will be eligible for this study.

You may not qualify if…

• Healthy patients

Where it is running

• University of Utah / Primary Childrens Medical Center — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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