Does giving oxygen to patients through nasal tube before giving artificial respiration (intubation) improve oxygen level in patients with respiratory failure compared to the standard face mask oxygen in patients presenting to Emergency Department.
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- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: J960- Acute respiratory failure
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/04/032993
- Lead Sponsor
- Christain medical college
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure defined as hypoxemia PaO2 <60 or with 20% drop in saturation from baseline with indication for intubation
Exclusion Criteria
1.Those not consenting for the study
2.Pregnancy
3.Contraindication to nasopharyngeal cannula like nasopharyngeal obstruction or blockage, nasal bone fractures, basilar skull fracture
4.Difficult airway due to reduced neck movement, mouth opening, Mallampatti score of class >2.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Median lowest Spo2 during intubation between the interventional and control arm <br/ ><br>Mortality during emergency stay <br/ ><br>Timepoint: zero,immediate and thirty minutes post intubation <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Difference in respiratory, hemodynamic parameters and incidence of adverse events post intubationTimepoint: zero to thirty minutes post intubation