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Awake Prone Positioning in Spontaneous Breathing Patients With Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure Due to Pneumonia
Sponsor: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Summary
Prone positioning has shown beneficial effects in intubated patients with severe respiratory failure and positive effects in awake patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Conclusive evidence for patients with AHRF without COVID-19 is still missing. The investigators hypothesis that awake prone position in patients with AHRF is superior to standard supine/semi-recumbent position in terms of reducing the rate of tracheal intubation and/or all-cause death within 28 days after randomization.
Official title: Awake PROne Positioning in PatientS With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure in Germany - A Randomized Controlled Study
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
342
Start Date
2025-04-11
Completion Date
2027-06-30
Last Updated
2025-08-20
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Awake Prone Positioning
The clinical intervention in the Intervention Group is Awake Prone Positioning, a standard therapy in intensive care units worldwide in ARDS care. The intervention should not be started later than 24 hours after randomization. An earlier start, as soon as possible, after randomization is strongly recommended. In patients in the intervention group standard Awake Prone Positioning for at least 10 hours/day for a length of 72 hours should be applied. The reach the targeted 10 hours / day (per 24 hours), it is strongly recommended to use blocks of a longer time period (e.g. multiple 3-5 hours blocks) within the 24h period to reach the anticipated APP goal. It is recommended that the APP therapy within the targeted intervention for 10 hours/day (per 24 h period) is not interrupted for more than 2 hours till reaching the goal of 10 hours / day (per 24 h). It is further strongly recommended that one APP session should last at least 3 hours. (...) For more information please see the protol.
Locations (1)
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hamburg, Germany