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Biomarkers, Genomics, Physiology in Critically Ill and ECMO Patients

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04669444

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Official title

Investigation of Biomarkers, Genomics, Physiology in Critically Ill and ECMO Patients

Brief summary

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Patients in end-stage cardiac failure and/or respiratory failure may be started on a rescue therapy known as Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). One of the major clinical questions is how to manage the ventilator when patients are on ECMO therapy. Ventilator Induced Lung Injury (VILI) can result from aggressive ventilation of the lung during critical illness. VILI and lung injury such as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) can further increase the total body inflammation and stress, this is known as biotrauma. Biotrauma is one of the mechanisms that causes multi-organ failure in critically ill patients. One advantage of ECMO is the ability to greatly reduce the use of the ventilator and thus VILI by taking control of the patient's oxygenation and acid-base status. By minimizing VILI during ECMO we can reduce biotrauma and thus multi-organ failure. Since the optimal ventilator settings for ECMO patients are not known, we plan to study the impact of different ventilator settings during ECMO on patient's physiology and biomarkers of inflammation and injury.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT04669444
Recruitment status
Not listed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
80 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Apr 13, 2020
Primary completion
Feb 28, 2022
Completion
Feb 28, 2023
Last update posted
Jan 25, 2023

2020 – 2023

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of California San Diego Health La Jolla California 92037-7381

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