Non-Invasive Ventilation Via a Helmet Device for Patients Respiratory Failure

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Conditions studied: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Shock, Ventilatory Failure, Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema

In brief

The objective of our study is to evaluate the efficacy of helmet ventilation as compared with Face mask in patients with respiratory failure.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01680783

Run by

University of Chicago

People needed

83

Starts

2012-09-01

Expected to finish

2016-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-07-14

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients aged ≥18 years of age who require noninvasive ventilation via facemask for >8hours
• Intact airway protective gag reflex
• Able to follow instructions

You may not qualify if…

• Cardiopulmonary arrest
• Glasgow coma scale <8
• Absence of airway protective gag reflex
• Elevated intracranial pressure
• Tracheostomy
• Upper airway obstruction
• Pregnancy.
• Patients who refuse to undergo endotracheal intubation, whatever the initial therapeutic approach

Where it is running

• University of Chicago Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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