Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:58 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:58 AM
NCT ID:
NCT06024993
Brief Summary:
Conventional continuous mandatory mechanical ventilation relies on the passive recoil of the chest wall for expiration. This results in an exponentially decreasing expiratory flow.
Flow controlled ventilation (FCV), a new ventilation mode with constant, continuous, controlled expiratory flow, has recently become clinically available and is increasingly being adopted for complex mechanical ventilation during surgery.
In both clinical and pre-clinical settings, an improvement in ventilation (CO2 clearance) has been observed during FCV compared to conventional ventilation. Recently, Schranc et al. compared flow-controlled ventilation with pressure-regulated volume control in both double lung ventilation and one-lung ventilation in pigs. They report differences in dead space ventilation that may explain the improved CO2 clearance, although their study was not designed to compare dead space ventilation within the group of double lung ventilation.
Dead space ventilation, or "wasted ventilation", is the ventilation of hypoperfused lung zones, and is clinically relevant, as it is a strong predictor of mortality in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and is correlated with higher airway driving pressures which are thought to be injurious to the lung (lung stress).
This trial aims to study the difference in dead space ventilation between conventional mechanical ventilation in volume-controlled mode and flow controlled-ventilation.
Study:
NCT06024993
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT06024993