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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN05135218
ISRCTN05135218
Completed
N/A

on-invasive mechanical ventilation with average volume assured pressure support (AVAPS) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypercapnic encephalopathy: prospective interventional match-controlled study

San Francisco de Quito University (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) (Ecuador)0 sites22 target enrollmentSeptember 18, 2012

Overview

Phase
N/A
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Infectious exacerbations of COPD and hypercapnic encephalopathy
Sponsor
San Francisco de Quito University (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) (Ecuador)
Enrollment
22
Status
Completed
Last Updated
8 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
September 18, 2012
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
8 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
San Francisco de Quito University (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) (Ecuador)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1\. Age \> 40 years
  • 2\. COPD was diagnosed on the basis of the recommendations of the American Thoracic Society
  • 3\. Hypercapnic encephalopathy with GCS \< 10 were designated to receive BiPAP S/T with AVAPS
  • 4\. The control group was then selected from patients in the emergency unit with infectious exacerbations of COPD and encephalopathy (GCS \< 10\). Patients were treated immediately and referred to us by doctors who were unaware of the study. Each patient was treated with NIV and was selected according to: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score within 4 points, age within 10 points, pH within 0\.04, GCS within 2 points, and BMI within 2 points
  • 5\. Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

  • 1\. A face deformity
  • 2\. Obstruction of the upper respiratory tract owing to recent surgery or trauma
  • 3\. Alterations in the central nervous system not related to a hypercapnic encephalopathy
  • 4\. Cardiogenic pulmonary edema, pneumothorax, pulmonary thromboembolism, hemoptysis, or septic shock
  • 5\. Urgent intubation owing to cardiac and/or respiratory arrest, and hemodynamic instability with a systolic arterial blood pressure (BP) of less than 80mmH
  • 6\. Other neurological illness

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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