Noninvasive Ventilation Bundle in Postoperative Respiratory Failure

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators assessed the efficacy and safety of this noninvasive Ventilation (NIV) bundle strategy compared with a conventional treatment in postoperative patients with ARF.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: West China Hospital
• Treatments: Propofol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Postoperative patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) were included in the study,who had to meet one of the following criteria

• Respiratory acidosis (arterial pH of 7.35 or less with PaCO2 of 45 mm Hg or more)

• Partial pressure of arterial oxygen (PaO2)/fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) ratio less than 250

• Dyspnoea with respiratory rate > 25 breaths/min or use of accessory respiratory muscles or paradoxical abdominal breathing

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cardiac or respiratory arrest; loss of consciousness

• Facial trauma or surgery or deformity sufficient to preclude mask fitting

• Active upper gastrointestinal bleeding

• Haemodynamic instability or unstable cardiac arrhythmia

• Multiple organ failure