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Closed-Loop O2 Use During High Flow Oxygen Treatment of Critical Care Adult Patients (CLOUDHFOT)

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure
Respiratory Depression
Respiratory Failure
Interventions
Device: Closed-loop FiO2 controller
Device: Conventional
Registration Number
NCT06374589
Lead Sponsor
Başakşehir Çam & Sakura City Hospital
Brief Summary

High flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNO) is an established modality in the supportive treatment of patients suffering from acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. The high humidified gas flow supports patient's work of breathing, reduces dead space ventilation, and improves functional residual capacity while using an unobtrusive patient's face interface \[Mauri et al, 2017; Möller et al, 2017\].

As hyperoxia is considered not desirable \[Barbateskovic et al, 2019\] during any oxygen therapy, the inspired O2 concentration is usually adapted to a pre-set SpO2 target-range of 92-96% in patients without hypercapnia risk, and of 88-92% if a risk of hypercapnia is present \[O'Driscoll et al, 2017; Beasley et al, 2015\]. In most institutions, the standard of care is to manually adapt the FiO2, although patients frequently have a SpO2 value outside the target range.

A new closed loop oxygen controller designed for HFNO was recently developed (Hamilton Medical, Bonaduz, Switzerland). The clinician sets SpO2 targets, and the software option adjusts FiO2 to keep SpO2 within the target ranges. The software option offers some alarms on low and high SpO2 and high FiO2. Given the capability, on the one hand, to quickly increase FiO2 in patients developing sudden and profound hypoxia, and, on the other hand, of automatically preventing hyperoxia in patients improving their oxygenation, such a system could be particularly useful in patients treated with HFNO.

A short-term (4 hours vs 4 hours) crossover study indicated that this technique improves the time spent within SpO2 pre-defined target for ICU patients receiving high-flow nasal oxygen therapy \[Roca et al, 2022\]. Due to its simplicity, HFNO is increasingly used outside the ICU during transport and in the Emergency Room (ER). This environment poses specific challenges, as patients may deteriorate very quickly and depending on patient's flow, healthcare providers can easily be overwhelmed. We thus propose to evaluate closed loop controlled HFNO in ER patients.

The hypothesis of the study is that closed loop oxygen control increases the time spent within clinically targeted SpO2 ranges and decreases the time spent outside clinical target SpO2 ranges as compared to manual oxygen control in ER patients treated with HFNO.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
50
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patient admitted to the ER
  • Requiring NHFO
  • Requiring FiO2 ≥ 30% to keep SpO2 in the target ranges defined by the clinician
  • Aged over 18 years
  • Written informed consent signed and dated by the patient or one relative in case that the patient is unable to consent, after full explanation of the study by the investigator and prior to study participation
  • In case that the consent is given by the relative, patient consent will be requested as soon as the patient will be able to provide informed written consent
Exclusion Criteria

Patients who fulfil any of the following exclusion criteria are not eligible for study participation:

  • Patient with indication for immediate CPAP, NIV, or invasive mechanical ventilation
  • Hemodynamic instability defined as a need of continuous infusion of epinephrine or norepinephrine > 1 mg/h
  • Low quality on the SpO2 measurement using finger and ear sensor (quality index below 60% on the Massimo SpO2 sensor, which is displayed by a red or orange color bar)
  • Severe acidosis (pH ≤ 7.30)
  • Pregnant woman
  • Patients deemed at high risk for need of mechanical ventilation within the next 12 hours
  • Chronic or acute dyshemoglobinemia: methemoglobin, CO poisoning, sickle cell disease
  • Tracheotomized patient
  • Formalized ethical decision to withhold or withdraw life support
  • Patient under guardianship
  • Patient deprived of liberties
  • Patient included in another interventional research study under consent
  • Patient already enrolled in the present study in a previous episode of acute respiratory failure

Post enrollment exclusion criteria

  • Apparition of a persistent low quality SpO2 signal
  • Need for an emergent intubation
  • Discharge from ER

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
CROSSOVER
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Close-loop FiO2 ControllerClosed-loop FiO2 controllerSix hours period where the fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) delivered will be automatically titrated based on SpO2 values obtained from the patient.
ConventionalConventionalSix hours period where the fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) delivered will be manually titrated by clinician based on SpO2 values obtained from the patient.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Percentage of time spent in optimal SpO2 range6 hours

The optimal SpO2 range will be defined according to the SpO2 targets determined by the clinician.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Total oxygen use6 hours

Amount of additional oxygen use

Percentage of time with with FiO2 below 40%6 hours

Duration of time with FiO2 \< 40 %

Number of events with SpO2 below of target range (duration >10 s)6 hours

Frequency of events with SpO2 below of target range (duration \>10 s)

Number of events with SpO2 above the predefined low SpO2 emergency limit6 hours

Frequency of events with SpO2 above of the predefined low SpO2 emergency limit

Percentage of time with SpO2 signal available6 hours

Time with SpO2 signal available

Percentage of time with SpO2 above target range6 hours

SpO2 values above the optimal range

Percentage of time with SpO2 outside optimal range6 hours

SpO2 values outside the optimal range

Percentage of time with SpO2 below target range6 hours

SpO2 values below the optimal range

Mean SpO2/FiO26 hours

Mean SpO2/FiO2

Percentage of time with with FiO2 above 60%6 hours

Duration of time with FiO2 \> 60 %

Number of events with SpO2 below the predefined low SpO2 emergency limit6 hours

Frequency of events with SpO2 below of the predefined low SpO2 emergency limit

Number of events with SpO2 below of target range (duration >60 s)6 hours

Frequency of events with SpO2 below of target range (duration \>60 s)

Percentage of time with with FiO2 = 100%6 hours

Duration of time with FiO2 = 60 %

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Başakşehir Çam & Sakura City Hospital

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Istanbul, Turkey

Dr.Suat Seren Chest Diseasees Hospital

🇹🇷

Izmir, Turkey

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