Clinical trialNCT01662011UnknownPhase 3Interventional

Application of Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist to Children After Congenital Cardiac Surgery

SponsorShanghai Jiao Tong University School of MedicineEnrollment72Congenital Heart DiseaseMechanical Ventilation Complication

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Summary

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Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) is a new mode of mechanical ventilation that delivers ventilatory assist in proportion to neural effort. It was a controlled randomized single-center prospective study in order to explore the efficacy of this new mode of mechanical ventilation after corrective open-heart surgery for congenital heart disease.

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Investigators

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Limin Zhu, MD
Cardiac intensive care unit, Department of Thoracic and cardiovascular Surgery, Shanghai children's Medical Center
Study Director
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

China

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery, Shanghai Children'S Medical Center, Medical College of Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanghai, China
Recruiting

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Jan 2010
Primary completion: 31 Dec 2011
Completion: 31 Dec 2012
Last update posted: 10 Aug 2012
Registered enrollment: 72
Registry id: NCT01662011

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