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- Title
Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in acute respiratory failure: a randomized controlled trial.
- Authors
Kacmarek, Robert M.; Villar, Jesús; Parrilla, Dácil; Alba, Francisco; Solano, Rosario; Liu, Songqiao; Montiel, Raquel; Rico-Feijoo, Jesús; Vidal, Anxela; Ferrando, Carlos; Murcia, Isabel; Corpas, Ruth; González-Higueras, Elena; Sun, Qin; Pinedo, César E.; Pestaña, David; Martínez, Domingo; Aldecoa, César; Añón, José M.; Soro, Marina
- Abstract
Purpose: We hypothesized that neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) compared to conventional lung-protective mechanical ventilation (MV) decreases duration of MV and mortality in patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF). Methods: We carried out a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial in patients with ARF from several etiologies. Intubated patients ventilated for ≤ 5 days expected to require MV for ≥ 72 h and able to breathe spontaneously were eligible for enrollment. Eligible patients were randomly assigned based on balanced treatment assignments with a computerized randomization allocation sequence to two ventilatory strategies: (1) lung-protective MV (control group), and (2) lung-protective MV with NAVA (NAVA group). Allocation concealment was maintained at all sites during the trial. Primary outcome was the number of ventilator-free days (VFDs) at 28 days. Secondary outcome was all-cause hospital mortality. All analyses were done according to the intention-to-treat principle. Results: Between March 2014 and October 2019, we enrolled 306 patients and randomly assigned 153 patients to the NAVA group and 153 to the control group. Median VFDs were higher in the NAVA than in the control group (22 vs. 18 days; between-group difference 4 days; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0 to 8 days; p = 0.016). At hospital discharge, 39 (25.5%) patients in the NAVA group and 47 (30.7%) patients in the control group had died (between-group difference − 5.2%, 95% CI − 15.2 to 4.8, p = 0.31). Other clinical, physiological or safety outcomes did not differ significantly between the trial groups. Conclusion: NAVA decreased duration of MV although it did not improve survival in ventilated patients with ARF.
- Subjects
ADULT respiratory distress syndrome; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; ARTIFICIAL respiration; HOSPITAL mortality; HOSPITAL admission &; discharge
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2020, Vol 46, Issue 12, p2327
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-020-06181-5