Clinical trial NCT04407468: Awake Prone Positioning and Oxygen Therapy in Patients With COVID-19
Official title: Awake Prone Positioning and Oxygen Therapy in Patients With COVID-19 (APRONOX)
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: COVID
ARDS
Pneumonia
Keywords: COVID
ARDS
PRONE POSITION
Lead sponsor: Hospital General San Juan del Rio
Sponsor class: NETWORK
Collaborators: name: Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia de Mexico
First posted: 2020-05-29
Enrollment: 827
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Study population Patients diagnosed with COVID-19

Brief summary: The prone position strategy for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is simple and cost-effective from the first description on its use in patients with acute respiratory failure to improve hypoxemia. Different studies have investigated its safety and efficacy in various clinical settings, demonstrating that its early use in combination with non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) or high-flow oxygen therapy can reduce intubation rate and mortality in ARDS. In the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, high-value medicine and resource optimization are critical.

Detailed description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that has significantly challenged health systems worldwide. Due to the large number of infections around the world, the implementation of strategies to reduce the number of intubations and the need for invasive mechanical ventilation becomes important. In addition to the inability of the Mexican health system to respond, patients under invasive ventilation have not had a favorable survival outcome. Up to 97% mortality has been reported in patients requiring intubation. The exact cause of this poor prognosis is not yet known. Early recognition of hypoxemic patients could help with the results. It seems reasonable in these patients to perform procedures to improve the clinical respiratory picture before intubation in less severe cases due to the aforementioned. Prone patient placement during invasive mechanical ventilation is a widespread practice in the management of severe ARDS of other etiologies. Currently, few attempts have been made to implement the prone position in patients who spontaneously ventilate with supplemental oxygen, high-flow nasal cannulas, or noninvasive mechanical ventilation. Taking into account that it is a procedure that does not require additional infrastructure within the services and does not represent an additional cost for its implementation, it becomes a valuable tool in the context of COVID-19 where intubation is associated with high mortality and in a Additionally, there are mechanical ventilator deficits in most hospitals. This work has feasibility to be carried out because it will be carried out in critical areas that have equipment and trained personnel for it in the different shifts, in addition to having patients diagnosed with COVID-19.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria

* Patient records with the following characteristics:
* Patients over 18 years of age
* Patients of both genders
* Patients diagnosed with COVID-19 infection
* Patients admitted to hospital
* Complete file

Non-inclusion criteria • Patients who do not decide to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Files not found.

Elimination criteria

* Files with incomplete data
* File with a voluntary discharge or transfer note.

Primary outcomes:
measure: To analyze the relationship between the prone position and the need for orotracheal intubation.
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The impact of the prone position on the partial oxygen saturation / inspired oxygen fraction index (SaO2 / FiO2).
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Determine the free hours without the need for orotracheal intubation of patients in the prone position.
timeFrame: 3 months
Locations:
city: Celaya
country: Mexico
facility: Hospital Materno Celaya
state: Guanajuato
city: Querétaro City
country: Mexico
facility: Hospital Santo Tomas
state: Queretaro
city: Querétaro City
country: Mexico
facility: Hospital General San Juan del Rio
state: Queretaro
city: Mérida
country: Mexico
facility: ISSSTE Hospital Regional Merida
state: Yucatan
city: Estado De México
country: Mexico
facility: Hospital General de Zona 48 San PEDRO Xalpa IMSS
city: Mexico City
country: Mexico
facility: Hospital Fernando Quiroz Gutierrez
Study officials:
affiliation: Hospital General San Juan del Rio
name: Orlando R Perez Nieto, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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