Weaning Protocol for High-flow Nasal Oxygen Therapy in Intensive Care: A Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- HFNO weaning protocol
- Conditions
- Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Tours
- Enrollment
- 370
- Locations
- 11
- Primary Endpoint
- The success rate at Day 7
- Status
- Recruiting
- Last Updated
- 9 months ago
Overview
Brief Summary
High-flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNO) is an oxygenation technique frequently used in intensive care.
The main objective of our study is to show that the use of a protocol for weaning patients off high-flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNO) in the intensive care unit increases the probability that patients will be weaned from HFNO at Day 7 post-randomisation.
This is a open-label multicentre randomised controlled trial conducted in two parallel groups.
The primary endpoint is the success rate at Day 7, with success defined as "definitive" weaning from HFNO, i.e. patients weaned from HFNO for more than 48 hours without recourse to non-invasive ventilation (NIV) or intubation and still alive at Day 7.
The weaning protocol will be started as soon as the patient meets all the inclusion criteria, considered to be the prerequisites for initiating weaning from HFNO. Patients will be monitored until Day 28 maximum.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Major patient admitted to the intensive care unit or continuous care unit for de novo hypoxaemic acute respiratory failure (with a PaO2/FiO2 ratio \<300 mmHg)
- •Treated with HDNO for at least 24 hours in an intensive care unit or continuous care unit
- •Treated with HFNO with a flow rate ≥ 50L/min and inspired oxygen fraction (FiO2) ≥ 0.5, at inclusion
- •With a ROX index (SpO2/FiO2/Respiratory Rate) stable or improving in the 6 hours prior to inclusion and greater than 4.88 (the patient must not be in a worsening phase).
- •Had a blood gas test under HFNO within 24 hours of inclusion
- •Participant covered by or entitled to social security
- •Informed consent signed by the patient or its relatives if the patient is incapable; this consent must then be confirmed by the patient as soon as possible
Exclusion Criteria
- •Presence of a patient included in the study and not weaned off HFNO in the sector managed by the nurse of the patient assessed for eligibility
- •Concomitant non-invasive ventilation treatment
- •Use of HFNO within 7 days of extubation
- •Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Gold grade 3 or 4)
- •Cardiogenic acute pulmonary oedema as the main cause of acute respiratory failure
- •Diffuse interstitial lung disease as a medical history
- •Patient with long-term non-invasive ventilation with external positive pressure
- •Patient on long-term oxygen therapy at home
- •Pregnant women, women in labour and breastfeeding mothers
- •Persons deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, persons hospitalised without consent and persons admitted to a health or social establishment for purposes other than research.
Arms & Interventions
Experimental group : Imposed weaning protocol
The flow of the HFNO will remain high (50-60 L/min) guaranteeing the effectiveness of the HFNO on the wash-out of the anatomical space. At the same time, weaning will begin with a gradual reduction in FiO2 of 0.1 every 4 hours. To achieve this reduction, the patient will have to meet the safety targets of a stable respiratory rate at rest (no increase) and pulsed oxygen saturation (SpO2). The SpO2 target will be 92-95%. Once the FiO2 has stabilised at 0.4 for 4 hours, the nurse will initiate a 10 L/min reduction in the flow of HFNO every 4 hours. The oxygen therapy support may be changed for standard oxygen when the HFNO flow rate is 40L/min with an FIO2 of 0.4 for 4 consecutive hours.
Intervention: HFNO weaning protocol
Control group
Weaning methods will be left to the free choice of the practitioner. Any change in the HFNO setting must be made on medical prescription. A minimum SpO2 objective is required (SpO2 ≥92%).
Intervention: HFNO Standard of care
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
The success rate at Day 7
Time Frame: At day 7
Success being defined as "definitive" weaning from HFNO, i.e. a patient weaned for more than 48 hours from HFNO without recourse to non-invasive ventilation or intubation and still alive at Day 7.
Secondary Outcomes
- High-flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNO) weaning rate at day 28(At day 28)
- Mortality rate at day 28(At Day 28)
- Changes in the ROX index during the weaning phase(From randomisation to day 28)
- Cumulative incidence of intubation(From randomisation to day 28)
- Cumulative incidence of use of curative non-invasive ventilation(From randomisation to day 28)
- Progression of dyspnoea(From randomisation to discharge from intensive care or to Day 28)
- Intensive care unit and/or continuous monitoring unit length of stay(From randomization until the date of discharge, assessed up to 28 days maximum)
- Time to definitive weaning from HFNO(From randomisation to day 28)
- Number of days on HFNO for patients definitively weaned from HFNO(From randomisation to discharge from intensive care or at Day 28)
- Changes in the use of accessory respiratory muscles(From randomisation to discharge from intensive care or to Day 28)
- Intensive care unit and/or continuous monitoring unit length of stay or time to ICU discharge readiness(From randomization until the date of discharge OR ability to be discharged from intensive care, assessed up to 28 days maximum)