The Variable Ventilation Trial (Part A) (VV (A))
25 de agosto de 2026 actualizado por: Rebecca Baron, Brigham and Women's Hospital
A Bayesian, Operationally Seamless Adaptive Phase 2A/2B, Open-label, Multi-center, Randomized, Two-part Trial to Evaluate the Safety, Efficacy, and Optimal Tidal Volume Distribution of Variable Ventilation (VV) in Participants Undergoing Mechanical Ventilatory Support for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a breathing machine (ventilator) method called "variable ventilation" can help protect the lungs of adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who need help breathing through a ventilator. In variable ventilation, the size of each breath given by the machine changes slightly from breath to breath, instead of staying the same size in every breath. The study has two parts, A (safety and feasibility) and B (efficacy). This entry will cover the part A (safety study).
The main questions part A aims to answer are:
- Is variable ventilation safe to use in adults with ARDS?
- Is it feasible to deliver this method of ventilation to patients?
Researchers will compare variable ventilation to the standard breathing machine method used today to see if variable ventilation is safe and feasible.
Participants will be placed on an FDA approved ventilator that can deliver conventional mechanical ventilation and variable ventilation. Participants will:
- Have a period of stabilization on conventional ventilation, followed by 24 hours of variable ventilation, followed by 24 hours of conventional ventilation.
- Be checked regularly for breathing, oxygen levels, lung function, and plasma biomarkers.
Descripción general del estudio
Estado
Aún no reclutando
Condiciones
Intervención / Tratamiento
Tipo de estudio
Intervencionista
Inscripción (Estimado)
20
Fase
- No aplica
Contactos y Ubicaciones
Esta sección proporciona los datos de contacto de quienes realizan el estudio e información sobre dónde se lleva a cabo este estudio.
Estudio Contacto
- Nombre: Rebecca Baron, MD
- Número de teléfono: 617-525-6642
- Correo electrónico: rbaron@bwh.harvard.edu
Ubicaciones de estudio
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Alabama
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Birmingham, Alabama, Estados Unidos, 35294
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Contacto:
- Peter Morris, MD
- Correo electrónico: pmorris@uabmc.edu
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Massachusetts
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Springfield, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos, 01199
- Baystate Health
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Contacto:
- Mark Tidswell, MD
- Correo electrónico: mark.tidswell@baystatehealth.org
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New York
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The Bronx, New York, Estados Unidos, 10461
- Montefiore Einstein
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Contacto:
- Luke Andrea
- Número de teléfono: 314-705-0925
- Correo electrónico: landrea@montefiore.org
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Contacto:
- Daniel Ceusters
- Correo electrónico: dceuster@montefiore.org
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Oregon
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Portland, Oregon, Estados Unidos, 97239-3098
- Oregon Health & Science University
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Utah
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Murray, Utah, Estados Unidos, 84107
- Intermountain Health Intermountain Medical Center
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Contacto:
- Jessica Reimer
- Correo electrónico: Jessica.Reimer@imail.org
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Contacto:
- Emma Murphy
- Correo electrónico: Emma.Murphy@imail.org
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Criterios de participación
Los investigadores buscan personas que se ajusten a una determinada descripción, denominada criterio de elegibilidad. Algunos ejemplos de estos criterios son el estado de salud general de una persona o tratamientos previos.
Criterio de elegibilidad
Edades elegibles para estudiar
- Adulto
- Adulto Mayor
Acepta Voluntarios Saludables
No
Descripción
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients ≥21 years old admitted to the Surgical, Trauma, Burn, Coronary or Medical ICUs with ARDS according to the Berlin criteria [50] and requiring mechanical ventilation will be eligible for inclusion.
- Not more than 96 hours of mechanical ventilation before randomization
- Anticipated need for at least 48 more hours of controlled mechanical ventilation
Intubated and mechanically ventilated for ARDS according to the Berlin criteria
- Hypoxemia of acute onset, within the past 7 days
- Mild or moderate hypoxemia, PaO2/FiO2 ratio 100 - 300 mm Hg
- Presence of a risk factor for ARDS
- Respiratory failure not fully explained by cardiac failure or fluid overload
- Bilateral opacities not explained by effusions, lobar collapse, or nodules
Exclusion Criteria:
Demographic
- Age less than 21 years
- Pregnant or breastfeeding
- Prisoner
- Concurrent participation in another investigational drug study
- Patient, surrogate, or physician not committed to full support (exception: a patient will not be excluded if they would receive all supportive care except for attempts at resuscitation from cardiac arrest)
- No consent or inability to obtain consent or appropriate legal representative not available
- Physician refusal to allow enrollment in the trial
- Moribund patient not expected to survive 24 hours
- Treating team unwilling to use ARDS network low tidal volume strategy or variable ventilation mode
- Use, or planned use of ECMO
- Stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic) or traumatic brain injury (TBI) within the prior 3 months
- Burns > 40% total body surface area (TBSA)
- Severe airway inhalational injury
- Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage
Any of the following hallmarks of Severe COPD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) grade 3 or 4
- FEV1 < 50% predicted
- Resting arterial blood gas values PaO2<55, SaO2<88%, or PaCO2>55
- Home invasive or non-invasive ventilation other than for sleep apnea
- Cor Pulmonale
- Candidate for, or has received, lung volume reduction surgery, bronchoscopic intervention to reduce end-expiratory lung volume, or lung transplantation
Any of the following cardiac problems:
- Acute myocardial infarction (MI) or acute coronary syndrome within the last 90 days
- Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery within 30 days
- Angina pectoris, or use of nitrates, with activities of daily living
- Cardiopulmonary disease classified as NYHA class IV
Physiological Exclusions
- Evidence of current barotrauma (e.g., pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, or subcutaneous emphysema)
- Hemodynamic instability defined by inability to maintain a mean arterial pressure > 60 mm Hg.
- Other respiratory instability PEEP ≥18 cmH2O, suctioning more than hourly, Pplateau > 35 cm H2O, severe respiratory acidosis pH<7.25.
- Increased ICP > 20 cmH2O or mechanism of injury leading to concern for increased ICP
- Active bleeding with hemodynamic instability.
Plan de estudios
Esta sección proporciona detalles del plan de estudio, incluido cómo está diseñado el estudio y qué mide el estudio.
¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?
Detalles de diseño
- Propósito principal: Tratamiento
- Asignación: No aleatorizado
- Modelo Intervencionista: Asignación Secuencial
- Enmascaramiento: Ninguno (etiqueta abierta)
Armas e Intervenciones
Grupo de participantes/brazo |
Intervención / Tratamiento |
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Experimental: Variable Ventilation
Strategy of mechanical ventilation based on varying tidal volume breath to breath to provide therapeutic benefits in patients with ARDS.
The variable ventilation (VV) strategy will be implemented on a commercially available ventilator.
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Strategy of mechanical ventilation based on varying tidal volume breath to breath to provide therapeutic benefits in patients with ARDS.
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Comparador de placebos: Conventional Ventilation
Standard strategy of mechanical ventilation based on constant size low tidal volume implemented on a commercially available ventilator.
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Strategy of mechanical ventilation based on delivery of a constant size low tidal volume.
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¿Qué mide el estudio?
Medidas de resultado primarias
Medida de resultado |
Medida Descripción |
Periodo de tiempo |
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Safety assessed by the incidence of pre-specified AEs over the first 24 hours
Periodo de tiempo: Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Barotrauma
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Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Safety assessed by the incidence of pre-specified AEs over the first 24 hours
Periodo de tiempo: Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Worsening Hypoxemia
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Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Safety assessed by the incidence of pre-specified AEs over the first 24 hours
Periodo de tiempo: Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Worsening ventilation
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Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Safety assessed by the incidence of pre-specified AEs over the first 24 hours
Periodo de tiempo: Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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New onset arrhythmia requiring cardioversion
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Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Safety assessed by the incidence of pre-specified AEs over the first 24 hours
Periodo de tiempo: Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Hemodynamic instability
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Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Safety assessed by the incidence of pre-specified AEs over the first 24 hours
Periodo de tiempo: Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
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Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Safety assessed by the incidence of pre-specified AEs over the first 24 hours
Periodo de tiempo: Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Self-extubation
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Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Safety assessed by the incidence of pre-specified AEs over the first 24 hours
Periodo de tiempo: Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Stroke
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Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Safety assessed by the incidence of pre-specified AEs over the first 24 hours
Periodo de tiempo: Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Death
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Maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Medidas de resultado secundarias
Medida de resultado |
Medida Descripción |
Periodo de tiempo |
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Lung mechanics
Periodo de tiempo: Every 12 hours to maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Lung compliance, airways resistance, peak and plateau pressures
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Every 12 hours to maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Gas exchange
Periodo de tiempo: Every 12 hours to maximum of 24 hours of VV
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SpO2, PaO2/FiO2 ratio, oxygenation index, dead space, and lung injury score.
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Every 12 hours to maximum of 24 hours of VV
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Feasibility of VV implementation.
Periodo de tiempo: Every 12 hours during 24 hours of VV
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Qualitative feedback from Research and Clinical staff of the device and implementation in the ICU setting.
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Every 12 hours during 24 hours of VV
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Colaboradores e Investigadores
Aquí es donde encontrará personas y organizaciones involucradas en este estudio.
Patrocinador
Colaboradores
Investigadores
- Investigador principal: Rebecca Baron, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Publicaciones y enlaces útiles
La persona responsable de ingresar información sobre el estudio proporciona voluntariamente estas publicaciones. Estos pueden ser sobre cualquier cosa relacionada con el estudio.
Publicaciones Generales
- Dellaca RL, Aliverti A, Lo Mauro A, Lutchen KR, Pedotti A, Suki B. Correlated variability in the breathing pattern and end-expiratory lung volumes in conscious humans. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 24;10(3):e0116317. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116317. eCollection 2015.
- Arold SP, Suki B, Alencar AM, Lutchen KR, Ingenito EP. Variable ventilation induces endogenous surfactant release in normal guinea pigs. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2003 Aug;285(2):L370-5. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00036.2003.
- Arold SP, Mora R, Lutchen KR, Ingenito EP, Suki B. Variable tidal volume ventilation improves lung mechanics and gas exchange in a rodent model of acute lung injury. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2002 Feb 1;165(3):366-71. doi: 10.1164/ajrccm.165.3.2010155.
- Bellardine CL, Hoffman AM, Tsai L, Ingenito EP, Arold SP, Lutchen KR, Suki B. Comparison of variable and conventional ventilation in a sheep saline lavage lung injury model. Crit Care Med. 2006 Feb;34(2):439-45. doi: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000196208.01682.87.
- Berry CA, Suki B, Polglase GR, Pillow JJ. Variable ventilation enhances ventilation without exacerbating injury in preterm lambs with respiratory distress syndrome. Pediatr Res. 2012 Oct;72(4):384-92. doi: 10.1038/pr.2012.97. Epub 2012 Jul 17.
- Bartolak-Suki E, Noble PB, Bou Jawde S, Pillow JJ, Suki B. Optimization of Variable Ventilation for Physiology, Immune Response and Surfactant Enhancement in Preterm Lambs. Front Physiol. 2017 Jun 23;8:425. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00425. eCollection 2017.
- Arold SP, Bartolak-Suki E, Suki B. Variable stretch pattern enhances surfactant secretion in alveolar type II cells in culture. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2009 Apr;296(4):L574-81. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.90454.2008. Epub 2009 Jan 9.
- Suki B, Alencar AM, Sujeer MK, Lutchen KR, Collins JJ, Andrade JS Jr, Ingenito EP, Zapperi S, Stanley HE. Life-support system benefits from noise. Nature. 1998 May 14;393(6681):127-8. doi: 10.1038/30130. No abstract available.
- Pillow JJ, Musk GC, McLean CM, Polglase GR, Dalton RG, Jobe AH, Suki B. Variable ventilation improves ventilation and lung compliance in preterm lambs. Intensive Care Med. 2011 Aug;37(8):1352-9. doi: 10.1007/s00134-011-2237-x. Epub 2011 May 13.
- Suki B, Parameswaran H, Imsirovic J, Bartolak-Suki E. Regulatory Roles of Fluctuation-Driven Mechanotransduction in Cell Function. Physiology (Bethesda). 2016 Sep;31(5):346-58. doi: 10.1152/physiol.00051.2015.
- Bartolak-Suki E, Imsirovic J, Parameswaran H, Wellman TJ, Martinez N, Allen PG, Frey U, Suki B. Fluctuation-driven mechanotransduction regulates mitochondrial-network structure and function. Nat Mater. 2015 Oct;14(10):1049-57. doi: 10.1038/nmat4358. Epub 2015 Jul 27.
- Pillow JJ, Bartolak-Suki E, Noble PB, Berry CA, Suki B. Surfactant Protein Production during Maturation Is Enhanced by Natural Variability in Breathing. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2023 Jul;69(1):115-118. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2022-0411LE. No abstract available.
- Thammanomai A, Hueser LE, Majumdar A, Bartolak-Suki E, Suki B. Design of a new variable-ventilation method optimized for lung recruitment in mice. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2008 May;104(5):1329-40. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01002.2007. Epub 2008 Mar 13.
- Thammanomai A, Hamakawa H, Bartolak-Suki E, Suki B. Combined effects of ventilation mode and positive end-expiratory pressure on mechanics, gas exchange and the epithelium in mice with acute lung injury. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e53934. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053934. Epub 2013 Jan 9.
Fechas de registro del estudio
Estas fechas rastrean el progreso del registro del estudio y los envíos de resultados resumidos a ClinicalTrials.gov. Los registros del estudio y los resultados informados son revisados por la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina (NLM) para asegurarse de que cumplan con los estándares de control de calidad específicos antes de publicarlos en el sitio web público.
Fechas importantes del estudio
Inicio del estudio (Estimado)
1 de febrero de 2027
Finalización primaria (Estimado)
1 de febrero de 2031
Finalización del estudio (Estimado)
31 de agosto de 2031
Fechas de registro del estudio
Enviado por primera vez
25 de agosto de 2026
Primero enviado que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad
25 de agosto de 2026
Publicado por primera vez (Actual)
27 de agosto de 2026
Actualizaciones de registros de estudio
Última actualización publicada (Actual)
27 de agosto de 2026
Última actualización enviada que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad
25 de agosto de 2026
Última verificación
1 de agosto de 2026
Más información
Términos relacionados con este estudio
Términos MeSH relevantes adicionales
Otros números de identificación del estudio
- 2026P001935
- HT94252510768 (Otro número de subvención/financiamiento: DOD)
Plan de datos de participantes individuales (IPD)
¿Planea compartir datos de participantes individuales (IPD)?
NO
Descripción del plan IPD
We will only be sharing data in agregate.
Información sobre medicamentos y dispositivos, documentos del estudio
Estudia un producto farmacéutico regulado por la FDA de EE. UU.
No
Estudia un producto de dispositivo regulado por la FDA de EE. UU.
Sí
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