Investigate the Aerosol Particle Distribution During Aerosol Generating Procedures

Completed

Conditions studied: Transmission, Patient Professional, High-flow Nasal Cannula

In brief

Massive number of clinicians were infected during the outbreak of COVID-19, which raised the concerns of utilizing "aerosol generating procedures", particularly the use of high-flow nasal cannula, noninvasive ventilation, intubation, bronchoscopy examination and pulmonary function test. There appears to be a trend to avoid those treatments. Instead, aggressive intubation might cause shortage of medical devices and add extra workload. Therefore, we aimed to do a clinical observational study to evaluate the aerosol generation in these procedures and explore the potential measures to reduce the aerosol generation or dispersion.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04353531

Run by

Rush University Medical Center

People needed

15

Starts

2020-05-20

Expected to finish

2020-08-30

Last updated by the study team

2021-04-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adult patients who are diagnosed as COVID-19 infection in ICU or Adult patients are indicated for pulmonary function tests

You may not qualify if…

• No need for any respiratory therapy

Where it is running

• Rush university medical center — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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