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Proportional Assist Ventilation vs Pressure Support Ventilation

NCT00790725 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2012-04-25

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Summary

In this study, we want to compare two different kinds of artificial ventilation to see if one encourages faster weaning from breathing support and if one provides better sleep quality. These artificial ventilation types are:

1. Pressure support ventilation; the standard ventilation that we use for the patients in the Respiratory Acute Care Unit. Pressure support ventilation ventilators use constant air pressure to assist patients with their breathing.
2. Proportional assist ventilation; a newer way of helping people with their breathing. The air pressure provided by proportional assist ventilation ventilators varies with the size of the breath that a person takes.

Conditions

  • Respiration, Artificial

Interventions

OTHER

Proportional Assist Ventilation

Proportional Assist Ventilation will be used to ventilate the patients.

OTHER

Pressure Support Ventilation

Pressure Support ventilation will be used to ventilate the patients.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medtronic - MITG

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert M Kacmarek, PhD · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-11-30
Primary Completion
2010-05-31
Completion
2010-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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