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

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

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.

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.

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