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High Flow Nasal Cannula vs Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients With Hypoxic Respiratory Failure Following Blunt Chest Trauma

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Blunt Injury of Thorax
Interventions
Device: high flow nasal cannula
Device: noninvasive ventilation
Registration Number
NCT05527431
Lead Sponsor
Ain Shams University
Brief Summary

to compare high flow nasal cannula against noninvasive ventilation in patients with non-sever blunt chest trauma in improvement of oxygenation, need for intubation and mechanical ventilation within 28 days

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
120
Inclusion Criteria
  • Age ≥18 y,
  • Willing and able to provide written informed consent prior to performing study procedures,
  • currently hospitalized and requiring medical care for non-sever blunt chest trauma (abbreviated injury severity scale ≤ 2) SpO2 90% or less while breathing 10 L/min.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Contraindications of noninvasive ventilation (face trauma or surgery, airway obstruction, upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding, disturbed level of consciousness), -smoker
  • intubation for any cause other than respiratory cause

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
high flow nasal cannulahigh flow nasal cannula-
noninvasive mechanical ventilationnoninvasive ventilation-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
PaO2/FiO2 ratio3 successive days

mean value of three successive PaO2/FiO2 ratio in mmHg between both groups

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Discomfort score3 successive days

Discomfort related to oxygen delivery devices will be evaluated using a 10- point numeric scale which low number is low discomfort.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ain Shams University hospitals

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Cairo, Egypt

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