Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 1:18 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 1:18 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00182195
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Invasive mechanical ventilation
* Acute respiratory insufficiency (within past 28 days)
* Bilateral infiltrates on frontal chest radiograph
* Hypoxemia, defined as PaO2/FiO2\<=250
Exclusion Criteria:
* Primary cause of respiratory failure is cardiac
* Anticipated duration of mechanical ventilation \< 48 hours
* Inability to wean other experimental ventilation strategies
* Severe chronic respiratory disease
* Neuromuscular disease that will prolong mechanical ventilation
* Conditions where hypercapnia-induced intracranial hypertension should be avoided
* Morbid obesity (\> 1Kg per cm body weight)
* Pregnancy
* Very unlikely to survive and lack of commitment to life support Underlying irreversible condition with 6 month mortality \>= 50%
* Greater than 48 hours elapsed since first eligible
* Current participation in competing trial
* Lack of physician, patient or proxy consent
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT00182195
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00182195