Clinical Decision Support Tool in PARDS Pilot Study

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Conditions studied: Ventilation Therapy; Complications, Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury, Ards

In brief

Previous clinical trials in adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have demonstrated that ventilator management choices can improve Intensive Care Unit (ICU) mortality and shorten time on mechanical ventilation. This study seeks to scale an established Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tool to facilitate dissemination and implementation of evidence-based research in mechanical ventilation of infants and children with pediatric ARDS (PARDS). This will be accomplished by using CDS tools developed and deployed in Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) which are based on the best available pediatric evidence, and are currently being used in an NHLBI funded single center randomized controlled trial (NCT03266016, PI: Khemani). Without CDS, there is significant variability in ventilator management of PARDS patients both between and within Pediatric ICUs (PICUs), but clinicians are willing to accept CDS recommendations. The CDS tool will be deployed in multiple PICUs, targeting enrollment of up to 180 children with PARDS. Study hypotheses: 1. The CDS tool in will be implementable in nearly all participating sites 2. There will be \> 80% compliance with CDS recommendations and 3. The investigators can implement automatic data capture and entry in many of the ICUs Once feasibility of this CDS tool is demonstrated, a multi-center validation study will be designed, which seeks to determine whether the CDS can result in a significant reduction in length of mechanical ventilation (LMV).

Key facts

Study ID: NCT04068012
Run by: Children's Hospital Los Angeles
People needed: 180
Starts: 2020-12-01
Expected to finish: 2027-07-01
Last updated by the study team: 2026-04-14

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Children > 1 month of age and >44 weeks gestation and ≤ 18 years of age AND
Supported on mechanical ventilation with pulmonary parenchymal disease (i.e. Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (PARDS)) with Oxygen Saturation Index (OSI) ≥ 5) or Oxygenation Index (OI) ≥ 4 AND
Who are within 72 hours of initiation of invasive mechanical ventilation AND
Who are anticipated to require >72 hours mechanical ventilation.

You may not qualify if…

Conditions on enrollment that preclude conventional methods of weaning (i.e., status asthmaticus, severe lower airway obstruction, bronchiolitis, critical airway, Extra Corporeal Life Support (ECLS), intubation for Upper Airway Obstruction, Do Not Resuscitate orders, severe chronic respiratory failure, spinal cord injury above lumbar region, cyanotic heart disease (unrepaired or palliated)) OR
Conditions precluding the use of permissive hypercapnia or hypoxemia (i.e. intracranial hypertension, severe pulmonary hypertension)
Primary Attending physician refuses to enroll the patient

Where it is running

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States (enrolling)
Riley Hospital for Children — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (enrolling)
Penn State University — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States (enrolling)
CHU Sainte-Justine — Montreal, Quebec, Canada (enrolling)
University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, Wisconsin, United States (enrolling)
University of Utah — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu — Roma, Italy

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