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Chronic lung conditions such as smoking related lung damage lead to breathing fail. This results in accumulation of gases such as carbon-di-oxide in the body especially during periods of illness known as exacerbation.
Current management of carbon-di-oxide accumulation is administration of oxygen, nebulisers, antibiotics etc and if necessary, provide a tight fitting mask around the face to provide breathing support. If this fails, then a patient is placed on a mechanical ventilator. The tight fitting mask therapy is also called non-invasive ventilation and is used widely but patients acceptability of the therapy is limited.
Providing a high flow of air with some oxygen could potentially provide the same benefit of the non-invasive ventilation and may also be better accepted by patients.
Currently the knowledge and evidence from studies suggest a beneficial role for this high flow therapy but this has not been investigated in well designed studies.
In the proposed study we aim to investigate whether use of the high flow therapy reduces the need for non-invasive ventilation in patients who present with a recent onset accumulation of carbon-di-oxide in their body due to long-term lung disease. If this shows benefit, it will lead to a bigger trial with patient benefiting by reduction in the non-invasive ventilation or indeed a need for an invasive breathing machine.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| High flow nasal therapy (HFNT) | Experimental | Characterized by an elevated arterial CO2 (PaCO2) level of > 6kPa due to ventilatory failure. The ventilatory failure relates to the imbalance between the respiratory demand and the capacity of the respiratory system to match the demand. |
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| Low flow oxygen (LFO) | Active Comparator | Characterized by an elevated arterial CO2 (PaCO2) level of > 6kPa due to ventilatory failure. The ventilatory failure relates to the imbalance between the respiratory demand and the capacity of the respiratory system to match the demand. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| High flow nasal therapy | Device | Controlled oxygen administration using at least 20 L/min of flow rate and titrated up as tolerated. Titration of supplemental oxygen to an arterial saturation between 88 - 92%. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Proportion of patients requiring NIV in each cohort | Proportion of patients who require NIV by 6 hours of intervention. | 6 hours |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| PaCO2 in Kilopascal | Blood arterial PCO2 level measured at the pre-specified timepoints or at the nearest timepoint. | 1 hour, 6 hours and 24 hours. |
| PaO2 in Kilopascal | Blood arterial PaO2 level measured at the pre-specified time-points or at the nearest time-point. |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Murali Shyamsundar, MD, PhD | Contact | +44 (0)28 9097 6381 | Murali.Shyamsundar@qub.ac.uk | |
| Asem Alnajada, MSc | Contact | aalnajada01@qub.ac.uk |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Mater Hospital | Recruiting | Belfast | United Kingdom | |||
| Royal Victoria Hospital |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 33419742 | Derived | Alnajada A, Blackwood B, Mobrad A, Akhtar A, Shyamsundar M. High-flow nasal cannula therapy for initial oxygen administration in acute hypercapnic respiratory failure: study protocol of randomised controlled unblinded trial. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2021 Jan;8(1):e000853. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000853. |
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IPD may be shared on request to the Principal Investigator and will be decided on a case by case basis.
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| ID | Term |
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| D012131 | Respiratory Insufficiency |
| ID | Term |
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| D012120 | Respiration Disorders |
| D012140 | Respiratory Tract Diseases |
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Randomized controlled parallel group trial
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Due to the nature of the intervention, the participants , care provider and investigator cannot be blinded but the outcome is objective and data will be analyzed by statistician independent of the study team.
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| Low flow oxygen | Device | Controlled oxygen administration using (venturi mask or nasal cannulae) titrated to an arterial saturation between 88 - 92% as the initial oxygen administration method with a flow rate of <20 L/min. |
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| 1 hour, 6 hours and 24 hours. |
| pH | pH measured for acid-base status. | 1 hour, 6 hours and 24 hours. |
| Respiratory rate (Breath/minute) | Rate of breathing per minute as documented in medical notes. | At 1 hour, 6 hours and 24 hours. |
| Heart rate (Beat/minute) | Heart rate per minute as documented in medical notes. | 1 hour, 6 hours and 24 hours. |
| Mean arterial pressure in millimeters of mercury | Mean arterial pressure in millimeters of mercury as documented in medical notes | 1 hour, 6 hours and 24 hours. |
| Intubation rate | 1 hour, 6 hours and 24 hours. |
| ICU admission | From the date of randomization until the date of first documented admission to ICU, assessed up to 12 weeks. |
| In-hospital mortality | From the date of randomization until the date of death or hospital discharge, whichever came first, assessed up to 12 weeks. |
| ICU length of stay | From the date of ICU admission until the date of last documented ICU discharge or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 12 weeks. |
| Hospital length of stay | From the date of randomization until hospital discharge or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 12 weeks. |
| Dyspnoea | Dyspnoea will be assessed assessment using a visual analogue scale (VAS), score range 0-10, higher values represent a better outcome)) if patient has capacity or the Likert scale (score range 1-5; higher values represent a better outcome) to be completed by the clinical team (doctor/nurse/physio) if the patient lacks capacity. | 1 hour, 6 hours and 24 hours. |
| Patient comfort | Comfort will be assessed assessment using a visual analogue scale (VAS), score range 0-10, higher values represent a better outcome)) if patient has capacity or the Likert scale (score range 1-5; higher values represent a better outcome) to be completed by the clinical team (doctor/nurse/physio) if the patient lacks capacity. | 1 hour. |
| Recruiting |
| Belfast |
| United Kingdom |