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Clinical and Electronic Record for Patients With COVID-19 Treated With the Assisted Breathing Helmet - ELMO in Ceará

Conditions
COVID-19
Interventions
Other: Clinical Observation
Registration Number
NCT05375799
Lead Sponsor
Escola de Saúde Pública do Ceará
Brief Summary

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) with a helmet-like interface has been described as a safe strategy, with minimal contamination of the environment, improving the oxygenation of patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) by COVID-19, avoiding intubation in more than half of the cases. ELMOcpap, developed in Ceará, was a great ally in the treatment of these cases during the pandemic in the state. It is estimated that among public and private services, more than 1.400 ELMOs have been applied to patients with COVID-19. However, the determining factors of the success and failure of its use in the different institutions in which it has been applied are still unknown. Therefore, it is necessary to survey all data associated with the use of the device.

Objectives: 1. To describe the effects of ELMO in the treatment of patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to COVID-19 in a database, in a systematic and standardized way, on clinical history, efficacy, safety, modes, duration of use, the occurrence of adverse events and early predictors of failure. 2. Determine the intubation rate of patients with COVID-19 hypoxemic respiratory failure who used the ELMO. 3. Identify the mortality rate of patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to COVID-19 who used the ELMO.

Methods: This is a retrospective, multicenter, observational, cohort study of recorded data from patients with COVID-19 hypoxemic respiratory failure who were treated with the ELMO. An online electronic form will be developed with REDCap, where the responsible investigator of each institution will be responsible for filling in the participants' data, ensuring adherence to the protocol and analysis will be carried out of the data of the patients of the participating services of the research that used the ELMO as treatment.

Detailed Description

An online electronic form will be developed with REDCap, where the responsible investigator of each institution will be responsible for filling in the participants' data, ensuring adherence to the protocol.

The researchers involved will undergo qualified training and will receive a video, showing step-by-step how REDCap works, so that there are no doubts about the data collection process and to ensure the standardization of the collection protocol.

An explanation of the nature and objectives of the study will be presented to the research subjects, as well as its importance to society, health professionals and researchers.

The investigators will visit the hospital at least five times a week in the morning, afternoon and/or night shifts, for data collection, with monitoring and collection of outcomes being performed daily.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
2000
Inclusion Criteria
  • Data from adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19 described in medical records by laboratory detection of RNA of SARS-CoV-2, who used the Assisted Breathing Helmet - ELMO, will be recruited.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Illegible medical records or forms or with incomplete data that make it impossible to collect data will be excluded.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
COVID-19 in use of ELMOClinical ObservationThis is an observational study, so there are no interventions. Data will be recruited from adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19, described in medical records, by laboratory detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA, who used the Assisted Breathing Helmet - ELMO.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Risk factors for deathup to 90 days

To evaluate the risk factors for death of patients with hypoxemic ARF due to COVID-19 who used the Assisted Breathing Helmet - ELMO.

Risk factors for intubationup to 60 days

To evaluate the risk factors for intubation of patients with hypoxemic ARF due to COVID-19 who used the Assisted Breathing Helmet - ELMO.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Total time of use ELMO therapyup to 60 days

Total time of use of the Assisted Breathing Helmet - ELMO

Adverse events of ELMOup to 60 days

Adverse events with the use of the Assisted Breathing Helmet - ELMO

Time to start ELMO therapyup to 28 days

Time to start using the Assisted Breathing Helmet - ELMO

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospital Leonardo Da Vinci

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Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

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