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Comparison Between NAVA and PSV in Neurocritical Patients

NCT03721354 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2019-11-19

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Summary

Partial assisted mechanical ventilation modes are widely used to manage respiratory failure. It has been demonstrated that they can reduce complications related to mechanical ventilation and neuromuscular blocking agents administration.

During partially assisted ventilation, there is no predefined respiratory rate and the patient must trigger each breath.

One of the most used partial assisted mode is pressure support ventilation (PSV), which plays a key role in weaning from mechanical ventilation, especially in neuro-cranial diseases.

Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist mode (NAVA) has been introduced in clinical practice in recent years. It has been widely demonstrated that NAVA is able to guarantee gas exchange in the same way as PSV in patients admitted to ICU for respiratory failure.

Thus, NAVA can improve patient-ventilator interaction reducing the incidence of asynchronous events and favoring the patient's own ventilatory pattern. Nevertheless, NAVA does not appear to have been applied in neuro ICU patients. In a study conducted on non-neurosurgical infants has been demonstrated negative effects of asynchronous events on cerebral blood flow velocities, examined with transcranial Doppler technique.

In the present pilot study, the investigators would like to compare NAVA and PSV ventilation influence on cranial blood flow, evaluated with Trans-Cranial Color Doppler, in patients admitted to ICU for neurological injuries.

Conditions

  • Neuro: Cerebrovascular Accident
  • Trauma, Head

Interventions

OTHER

NAVA vs PSV - TCCD

Patients will be submitted to 3 different 30 minutes ventilation trials: the first one in PSV mode, the second one in NAVA mode and the third one in PSV mode again. PSV will have PEEP setted by clinician and pressure support set in order to obtain Vt 6-8 ml/kg. NAVA will have the same PEEP as PSV and NAVA level will be set to obtain the same Peak of Inspiratory Pressure) of PSV. Trans cranial doppler technique will be performed to evaluate the blood cerebral flow speed (average/systolic speed) at the end of every ventilation trial. At the end of each trial, ABGs will be performed. Traces of flow, airways pressure (Paw) and electric diaphragmatic activity (EAdi) will be recorded and acquired through a dedicated ventilator software called NAVA tracker.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Maggiore della Carita

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gianmaria Cammarota, MD,PHD · "Maggiore della Carità" Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-11-01
Primary Completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2019-12-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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