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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)

Completed
Conditions
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Interventions
Device: conventional mechanical ventilation
Device: ECMO
Registration Number
NCT03607760
Lead Sponsor
Daping Hospital and the Research Institute of Surgery of the Third Military Medical University
Brief Summary

Since the 1970s, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support has been used to support gas exchange for children with severe acute respiratory failure who fail mechanical ventilation. ECMO is more expensive than each of these other procedures.But its action is unclear

Detailed Description

Since 1974, eight randomized controlled trials have been reported in ECMO for respiratory failure, and none have included non-neonatal pediatric patients. Cochrane systematic reviews of this evidence concluded that ECMO for neonatal respiratory failure had a survival advantage, but there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate a survival advantage for ECMO used to support respiratory failure in adults. Moreover, these trials were performed prior to 2009, and since then advances in ECMO technology have enhanced the delivery of ECMO support, and new research has changed conventional management of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
300
Inclusion Criteria
  1. ECMO group:

  2. Oxygenation Index > 40 for >4 hours

  3. Failure to wean from 100% oxygen despite prolonged (> 48h) maximal medical therapy or persistent episodes of decompensation

  4. Severe hypoxic respiratory failure with acute decompensation (PaO2 <40) unresponsive to intervention

  5. Severe pulmonary hypertension with evidence of right ventricular dysfunction and/or left ventricular dysfunction. The pulmonary artery pressure > 60mmHg evaluated by the Echo, arterial duct keeps open and the blood flow was either by-level shunt or completely shunt from right side to left side.

  6. Non-ECMO group:

  7. Oxygenation Index > 16 and reach the Montreux definition of severe respiratory distress syndrome

  8. Vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS) ≥ 40 [VIS=dopamine dose (μg/kg/min)×1 + dobutamine dose (μg/kg/min)×1 + milrinone dose (μg/kg/min)×10 + amrinone dose (μg/kg/min)×10 + epinephrine dose (μg/kg/min)×100 + isoprenaline dose (μg/kg/min)×100]

Exclusion Criteria
  1. Gestational age < 36 weeks, birth weight < 2 kg, day post-birth > 28 days.
  2. lethal chromosomal disorder (includes trisomy 13, 18 but not 21) or any other lethal anomaly
  3. irreversible brain damage
  4. uncontrolled bleeding
  5. Grade III or greater intraventricular hemorrhage
  6. ventilator days ≥ 15 days.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
conventional mechanical ventilationconventional mechanical ventilationsevere respiratory failure with conventional mechanical ventilation
ECMOECMOsevere respiratory failure with ECMO
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
28 days' mortality28 days

the patients died

in-hospital mortality36 weeks' gestational age or before discharge from hospital

the patients died

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Intraventricular hemorrhage36 weeks' gestational age or before discharge from hospital

Intraventricular hemorrhage was diagnosed after extubation

Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis36 weeks' gestational age or before discharge from hospital

Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis was diagnosed after extubation

bronchopulmonary dysplasia36 weeks' gestational age or before discharge from hospital

bronchopulmonary dysplasia was diagnosed after extubation

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Daping Hospital and the Research Institute of Surgery of the Third Military Medical University

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Chongqing, Chongqing, China

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