Clinical trial NCT05210881: Weaning From Nasal High Flow Therapy
Official title: Weaning From Nasal High Flow Therapy: an Explorative Study Assessing the Usefulness of the ROX Index to Predict Outcome of the Weaning Process in Combination With a Withdrawal Trial
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult
Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Weaning Failure
Keywords: nasal high flow oxygen
withdrawal from nasal high flow therapy
ROX index
acute hypoxemic respiratory failure
withdrawal trial
Lead sponsor: Hôpital Louis Mourier
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-01-27
Enrollment: 62
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: ICU patients treated with nasal high flow therapy

Brief summary: Nasal high flow is widely used in critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. It has been shown to improve patient comfort, increase oxygenation and reduce need for intubation in some patients. The Respiratory Oxygenation (ROX) index has been established as a simple tool to help clinicians identify those patients who will succeed and those who will fail under nasal high flow and therefore predict the need for intubation. However, when nasal high flow therapy is successful, little is known as to how and when weaning of this device should be performed and what are the predictors of a safe withdrawal of the device. The objectives of this retrospective exploratory study are to identify a cut-off value of the ROX index predictive of success of the withdrawal trial, to describe a one-year use of the withdrawal trial; to describe the ROX value closest to weaning from nasal high flow, and to identify factors associated with success or failure of the withdrawal trial from nasal high flow therapy in patients receiving nasal high flow therapy.

Detailed description: Although nasal high flow is widely used in critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, and its benefits have been shown in multiple studies, little is known as to how and when weaning from the technique device should be performed and what are the predictors of a safe withdrawal. The Respiratory Oxygenation (ROX) index was established and tested to predict outcome of nasal high flow therapy in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. It combines three parameters available at the bedside that reflect patient's respiratory status: respiratory rate, the level of the inspired fraction of oxygen (FiO2) and pulse oximetry (SpO2). Importantly, the combination of these three parameters outweighed the performance of each parameter taken separately to predict nasal high flow therapy outcome. Since its initial publication, several studies coming from different countries have confirmed the potential for the ROX index to predict need for intubation in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, thus making a valuable tool accessible to everyone, including nurses, to monitor on a routine basis. Because it reflects the patient's respiratory status, the greater the score, the better the patient's condition. Hence, one may hypothesize that, at the other end of the spectrum of respiratory failure (i.e., at the stage of weaning and withdrawal of the high flow device when the patient has considerably improved), the ROX index may also help identify those patients who will be successfully separated from the nasal high flow support. To date, one study has suggested that among several parameters, the value of the ROX index could be associated with successful cessation of nasal high flow. Here, in a retrospective exploratory study, investigators aim to to identify a cut-off value of the ROX index predictive of success of the withdrawal trial, to describe a one-year use of the withdrawal trial (average duration of use of nasal high flow before weaning, number of weaning trials, number of failed and successful weaning trials.); to describe the ROX value closest to weaning from nasal high flow, and to identify factors associated with success or failure of the withdrawal trial from nasal high flow therapy in patients receiving nasal high flow therapy; A successful withdrawal is defined as the withdrawal of nasal high flow without necessity of placing the patient back on nasal high flow within the following 24h. A failed withdrawal is defined by the need to resume nasal high flow within the 24h hours following the withdrawal. The possible identification of a cut-off value may help clinicians initiate earlier weaning from nasal high flow.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- ICU patient treated with nasal high flow

Exclusion Criteria:

* age \< 18 years
* concomitant treatment with non-invasive ventilation
* acute hypercapnic respiratory failure

Primary outcomes:
measure: Value of the Respiratory Oxygenation index (ROX) at nasal high flow withdrawal
timeFrame: through each nasal high flow therapy, that lasts an average of 24hours
Secondary outcomes:
measure: use of nasal high flow before weaning
timeFrame: through each nasal high flow therapy, that lasts an average of 24 hours
measure: number of withdrawal trials
timeFrame: through each nasal high flow therapy, that lasts an average of 24 hours
measure: number of patients who failed a withdrawal trial
timeFrame: throughout study duration which is a one-year period
measure: number of patients who succeeded a withdrawal trial
timeFrame: throughout study duration which is a one-year period
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Colombes
country: France
facility: Hôpital Louis Mourier, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Study officials:
affiliation: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
name: Jean-Damien Ricard, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Ricard JD, Roca O, Lemiale V, Corley A, Braunlich J, Jones P, Kang BJ, Lellouche F, Nava S, Rittayamai N, Spoletini G, Jaber S, Hernandez G. Use of nasal high flow oxygen during acute respiratory failure. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Dec;46(12):2238-2247. doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06228-7. Epub 2020 Sep 8.
citation: Roca O, Caralt B, Messika J, Samper M, Sztrymf B, Hernandez G, Garcia-de-Acilu M, Frat JP, Masclans JR, Ricard JD. An Index Combining Respiratory Rate and Oxygenation to Predict Outcome of Nasal High-Flow Therapy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Jun 1;199(11):1368-1376. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201803-0589OC.
citation: Rodriguez M, Thille AW, Boissier F, Veinstein A, Chatellier D, Robert R, Le Pape S, Frat JP, Coudroy R. Predictors of successful separation from high-flow nasal oxygen therapy in patients with acute respiratory failure: a retrospective monocenter study. Ann Intensive Care. 2019 Sep 11;9(1):101. doi: 10.1186/s13613-019-0578-8.