Ventilator Strategies in ICU Patients With COVID-19 - a National-wide Retrospective Observational Study.
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
Mechanical ventilation is likely lifesaving in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but may also result in adverse events. Only few studies describe the strategies used and adverse effect of mechanical ventilation in an unselected population of ICU patients with COVID-19.
This study is designed to be a retrospective study focusing on all mechanical ventilated ICU patients with COVID-19 included in the national Danish COVID ICU database between 10.03.2020
- 02.04.2021 i.e. a total of 1,193 patients. The investigators will register the use of the core interventions around mechanical ventilation and its potential adverse event, including barotrauma and prolonged ventilation.
This study will provide important data on the ventilation strategies used and its potential adverse events in unselected ICU patients with COVID-19 and thereby inform clinicians, patients, policy-makers, and future research in this area.
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Study Design
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Ventilator days with lung -protective ventilation in percent of all ventilation days with 95%-CI. [Until 90 days]
Low tidal volume ventilation (Vt 4-8 mL/kg of predicted body weight)
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Pneumothorax [Until 90 days]
Pneumothorax noted in the medical record
- Ventilator days [Until 90 days]
Number of days where the patients where the patient is ventilator depended
- Number of patients with prolonged ventilation [Until 90 days]
Patients with more than 30 ventilator days
- paO2/FiO2 ratio on days of ventilation [Until 90 days]
Ratio between measured arterial oxygen pressure and the fraction of inhaled oxygen
- The use of APRV [Until 90 days]
The use of Airway pressure release as primary ventilator setting
- Prone position [Until 90 days]
The use of prone position within the first 3 days and the use of prone position after day 3
- Time to spontaneous ventilation [Until 90 days]
Time measured in days until the patients no longer needs controlled ventilation
- Tracheostomy [Until 90 days]
Day after first intubation, Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (y/n), Surgical tracheostomy (y/n)
- Adjuvant drugs [Until 90 days]
Adjuvant drugs at any time during mechanical ventilation
- Mortality [Until 90 days]
Mortality at day 90
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
All mechanical ventilated patients registered in the national Danish COVID ICU database between 10.03.2020 - 02.04.2021 i.e.
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Admitted to an ICU in Denmark
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Laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection
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Use of invasive mechanical ventilation (ventilation via a cuffed endotracheal tube) at any time during the ICU stay
Exclusion Criteria:
None
Contacts and Locations
Locations
Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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1 | Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Aalborg University Hospital | Aalborg | Denmark | 9000 | |
2 | Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Kolding Hospital | Kolding | Denmark | 6000 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- University of Southern Denmark
- Odense University Hospital
- Aalborg University Hospital
- Bispebjerg Hospital
- Herlev and Gentofte Hospital
- Hvidovre University Hospital
- Rigshospitalet, Denmark
- Aarhus University Hospital
- Region Zealand
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Anne C Brøchner, MD, PhD, University of Southern Denmark
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- 2020-C 19-29-10-21