Recruitment

Recruitment Status
Enrolling by invitation
Estimated Enrollment
Same as current

Summary

Conditions
  • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
  • Nitric Oxide
Type
Interventional
Phase
Not Applicable
Design
Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentIntervention Model Description: Moderate to severe ARDS patient on mechanical ventilation in Far Eastern Memorial Hospital MICUMasking: Single (Participant)Masking Description: During this period, all patients were total sedation using continuous infusion, to prevent any spontaneous breathing .All patients were ventilated using a ventilatorPrimary Purpose: Treatment

Participation Requirements

Age
Between 20 years and 99 years
Gender
Both males and females

Description

Normally, pulmonary arteries in areas of alveolar hypoxia will constrict as a physiologic response to preserve ventilation/perfusion (V¬/Q¬) matching. However, in ARDS, this normal vasoconstrictive response is impaired. Because the body is unable to shunt blood away from the diseased alveoli, these ...

Normally, pulmonary arteries in areas of alveolar hypoxia will constrict as a physiologic response to preserve ventilation/perfusion (V¬/Q¬) matching. However, in ARDS, this normal vasoconstrictive response is impaired. Because the body is unable to shunt blood away from the diseased alveoli, these nonaerated alveoli receive excessive blood flow, which contributes to severe V¬/Q¬ mismatching and an intrapulmonary right-to-left shunting of blood flow, which causes hypoxemia. In the recent years, the treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome has been proved that lung recruitment re-opens the non-ventilated alveolar to improve ventilation, and inhaled Nitric Oxide dilates non-perfused pulmonary vascular to improve perfusion. Both of these could improve ventilation-perfusion mismatch to enhance oxygenation. However, Ventilation-Perfusion mismatch is devided into ventilated nonperfused lung units(dead space) or perfused nonventilated units(shunt). No published study has evaluated the availability of lung recruitment combined with inhaled Nitric oxide in patients with ARDS. The aims of our study are to measure dead space or shunt fraction before and after inhaled Nitric Oxide in moderate to severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome patients indicated Nitric oxide in FEMH MICU on 2021/01-2022/12, injected a bolus of 10mL of 3% NaCl solution via the central venous catheter with two-step recruitment maneuver by Electrical Impedance Tomography, which monitors ventilation-perfusion mismatch to evaluate whether the patient has potential to improve V/Q mismatch by Nitric oxide.

Tracking Information

NCT #
NCT04776408
Collaborators
Not Provided
Investigators
Study Director: Hou T Chang, Doctor Far Eastern Memorial Hospital Study Director: Ping H Wang, Bachelor Far Eastern Memorial Hospital Study Director: Mei Y Chang, Master Far Eastern Memorial Hospital