Automatic weaning with adaptive support ventilation (ASV): effect on nurse workload and duration of spontaneous ventilation until extubation.
Completed
- Conditions
- Mechanical ventilation after coronary bypass grafting.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 128
Inclusion Criteria
1. Planned uneventful cardiac surgery i.e. CABG;
2. Following receipt of verbal and written information about the trial, the patient must provide signed and dated informed consent before any trial related activity is carried out.
Exclusion Criteria
1. History of pulmonary disease;
2. History of pulmonary surgery;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Number of ABG analysis;<br /><br>2. Number of audible alarms;<br /><br>3. Number of manual changes in the ventilator settings (including (a) switches from PC to PS (only in the control group), (b) changes in minute ventilation (only in the ASV group), (c) lowering of PS-level (only in the control group);<br /><br>4. Duration of period of spontaneous mechanical ventilation;<br /><br>5. Duration of total period of tracheal intubation.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method