Clinical Trial: Electrical impedance tomography assessment of changes in regional lung ventilation associated with respiratory effort, body positioning, and noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation in patients with acute respiratory failure transported to the emergency department: a prospective observational study (Japan)

Tokyo, Oct. 17 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000063323) titled 'A study using electrical impedance tomography to assess lung ventilation and its changes with body positioning and noninvasive ventilation in patients with acute respiratory failure in the emergency department' on Oct. 16.

Study Type: Observational

Primary Sponsor: Institute - Yamagata University

Condition: Condition - Acute respiratory failure in patients presenting to the emergency department Classification by malignancy - Others Genomic information - NO

Objective: Narrative objectives1 - This study aims to prospectively evaluate changes in regional lung ventilation assessed using electrical impedance tomograph...