Sedation and Ease of Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-10-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Daily interruption of sedation is one of the modalities which is known to enhance early weaning and separation from mechanical ventilation . Daily sedation interruption is also known to help decreasing incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia. The new modality is no sedation.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Midazolam

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Obstructive lung disease

• Respiratory failure

• Invasive mechanical ventilation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Neurological deficit

• Cognitive dysfunction

• Extensive malignancy

• septic Shock