- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT02224352
VentFree: A Novel Abdominal Stimulator to Assist With Ventilator Weaning
Background: Over one million patients in the US are estimated to undergo mechanical ventilation every year, and approximately 300,000 of them fail attempts at weaning. The morbidity and mortality of these patients is greater than in patients who are successfully weaned. It follows that treatments aimed at reducing the duration of mechanical ventilation have the potential to benefit society both in terms of human suffering and cost.
Patients who fail attempts at weaning assist their inspiratory muscles during inhalation by recruiting their expiratory muscles during exhalation. Unfortunately, this recruitment occurs relatively late during a weaning trial. The knowledge that (a) expiratory muscle recruitment can assist inspiration, (b) the recruitment of the expiratory muscles is delayed during weaning, and (c) that the respiratory muscles in patients requiring mechanical ventilation are in a catabolic state raises the possibility that strategies designed to produce an early recruitment, and improve the strength, of the expiratory muscles could improve weaning outcomes in difficult to wean patients.
The current investigation, which will be conducted in healthy subjects and in ambulatory patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at Edward Hines Jr. VAH (Aims 1 and 2), and in patients who are difficult to wean from mechanical ventilation at RML Specialty Hospital, Hinsdale, IL (Aim 3), has been designed to develop and assess a novel triggering algorithm (VentFree), that controls the delivery of non-invasive neuro muscular electrical stimulation (NMES) to the abdominal-wall muscles during exhalation, and to study the physiological (respiratory) responses to such stimulation in assisting respiration in healthy subjects, in ambulatory patients with COPD and in patients requiring pronged mechanical ventilation.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Franco Laghi, MD
- Phone Number: 708/202-2705
- Email: Franco.Laghi@va.gov
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Hameeda Shaikh, MD
- Phone Number: 708/202-2705
- Email: Hameeda.Shaikh@va.gov
Study Locations
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Illinois
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Hines, Illinois, United States, 60141
- Recruiting
- Edward G. Hines Jr., VA Hospital
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Contact:
- Franco Laghi, MD
- Phone Number: 708-202-2705
- Email: Franco.Laghi@va.gov
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Contact:
- Susan O'Connell, RN,MHA
- Phone Number: 708/202-7218
- Email: Susan.Oconnell@va.gov
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Sub-Investigator:
- Hameeda Shaikh, MD
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Hinsdale, Illinois, United States, 60521
- Recruiting
- RML Specialty Hospital
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Sub-Investigator:
- Hameeda Shaikh, MD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Aim 1 and Aim 2:Healthy Subjects and Ambulatory COPD Patients Studied at Hines VAH
Healthy subjects (Hines VAH), Inclusion criteria:
- Age ≥ 18 years
- No history of acute or chronic respiratory disease, cardiac or neuromuscular disease.
Ambulatory COPD patients (Hines VAH), Inclusion criteria:
- Age ≥ 18 years
- Chronic airway obstruction defined as forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) of 70% predicted or less, ratio of forced expiratory volume in one second to forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC) of 0.7 or less
- Stable clinical condition without an exacerbation during the preceding four weeks
Aim 3: Patients being weaned from prolonged mechanical ventilation (RML Specialty Hospital), Inclusion criteria:
- Age ≥ 18 years
- History of neuromuscular disease
- Body mass index > 35 kg/m2
- Patients who have received mechanical ventilation for at least 14 days and the primary physician judges the patient is ready to start weaning
- Able to breathe spontaneously for more than 5 minutes and less than 12 hours
- Clinically stable: oxygen saturation > 90% with a fractional inspired oxygen ≤ 0.40, external PEEP ≤ 5 cm H2O, temperature ranging from 35.5 to 38.5Co, no intravenous administration of vasoactive agents.
Additional inclusion/exclusion criteria for all potential participants
- Subjects with implanted electronic devices - such as cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators and intrathecal pumps - will be excluded because NMES could cause malfunction of those devices.
- Only subjects with intact abdominal-wall skin will be enrolled because NMES can cause discomfort when applied over skin that is irritated or on open wounds.
- Pregnancy will be a contraindication to participate in the study because it is unknown whether the application of NMES to the abdominal or lumbar area during pregnancy may produce adverse effects.
- Unable to comprehend and interact in English.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Other
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Single-Arm Study
Functional neuromuscular electrical stimulation of abdominal-wall muscles triggered by an airway pressure signal
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Sensitivity
Time Frame: 10 minutes of resting breathing
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Number of breaths that are correctly stimulated during exhalation over the total number of breaths taken.
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10 minutes of resting breathing
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Error rate
Time Frame: 10 minutes of resting breathing
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Number of false positive stimulation triggers over the total number of breaths taken.
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10 minutes of resting breathing
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Tidal volume
Time Frame: 10 minutes of resting breathing
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10 minutes of resting breathing
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Respiratory rate
Time Frame: 10 minutes of resting breathing
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10 minutes of resting breathing
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Minute ventilation
Time Frame: 10 minutes of resting breathing
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10 minutes of resting breathing
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Esophageal pressure time product
Time Frame: 10 minutes of resting breathing
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10 minutes of resting breathing
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Trans diaphragmatic pressure time product
Time Frame: 10 minutes of resting breathing
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10 minutes of resting breathing
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Tension time index of the diaphragm
Time Frame: 10 minutes of resting breathing
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10 minutes of resting breathing
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Ratio of tidal change in Pga to tidal change in Pes
Time Frame: 10 minutes of resting breathing
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10 minutes of resting breathing
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Franco Laghi, MD, Staff Physician
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Other Study ID Numbers
- NSF-1417104
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.
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