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High-flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy With the Chest Trauma Patients

Not Applicable
Conditions
Blunt Thoracic Injury
Lung Ultrasound Score
Registration Number
NCT03430258
Lead Sponsor
Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University
Brief Summary

This prospective randomized controlled study was conducted in the emergency intensive care units (EICU) of the second affiliated hospital Zhejiang university school of medicine, a large tertiary university hospital in HangZhou, China.The aim of this randomized study was to compare the effectiveness of high-flow nasal cannula with conventional oxygen therapy in ICU patients with blunt thoracic injury.

Detailed Description

This prospective randomized controlled study was conducted in the emergency intensive care units (EICU) of the second affiliated hospital Zhejiang university school of medicine, a large tertiary university hospital in HangZhou, China.The aim of this randomized study was to compare the effectiveness of high-flow nasal cannula with conventional oxygen therapy in ICU patients with blunt thoracic injury.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
90
Inclusion Criteria
  • The trauma registry was used to identify patients with moderate to severe blunt thoracic injury (abbreviated injury scale (AIS) chest score ≥3) admitted to the ICU
Exclusion Criteria
  1. had intubation and used the mechanical ventilation within 2 hours
  2. had the emergency surgerys within 2 hours
  3. patients can not accessed by transthoracic lung ultrasound because of the sever aerodermectasia or pneumothorax
  4. the Glasgow Coma Scale <8

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
compare the effectiveness of high-flow nasal cannula with conventional oxygen therapy in ICU patients with blunt thoracic injury.72 hours

High-flow nasal cannula could reduce the intube rate of patients with blunt thoracic injury,and improve the the lung aeration for patients with thoracic injury

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
number of days in ICU7 days

High-flow nasal cannula could reduce the number of days for the patients treatments in ICU

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