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title: "The Specific Elastance in ARDS Patients: a Pediatric Study"
nct_id: NCT02036801
overall_status: COMPLETED
sponsor: Policlinico Hospital
study_type: OBSERVATIONAL
primary_condition: Pediatric ARDS
countries: Italy
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clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02036801"
ct_last_update_post_date: 2015-03-19
last_seen_at: "2026-05-12T07:15:57.313Z"
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# The Specific Elastance in ARDS Patients: a Pediatric Study

**Official Title:** The Specific Elastance in ARDS Patients. Connections Between Volutrauma and Barotrauma - A Pediatric Study

**NCT ID:** [NCT02036801](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02036801)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Study Type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 40
- **Lead Sponsor:** Policlinico Hospital
- **Conditions:** Pediatric ARDS
- **Start Date:** 2009-06
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2015-03-19

## Brief Summary

Aim of this study is to assess lung specific elastance in a population of pediatric patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) treated with mechanical ventilation, and in a pediatric population of ICU patients with healthy lung which are treated with mechanical ventilation for other clinical purposes.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 1 Year
- **Maximum age:** 12 Years
- **Sex:** ALL
- **Healthy Volunteers:** No

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Inclusion Criteria:

* ARDS (Berlin Definition Criteria) or mechanical ventilation in healthy lungs

Exclusion Criteria:

* Hemodynamic instability
* Lung diseases other than ARDS
* Parental refuse
```

## Arms

- **ARDS** — Patients with ARDS (according to the Berlin Definition criteria) in mechanical ventilation
- **Healthy control** — Patients with healthy lung supported with mechanical ventilation for clinical purposes

## Interventions

- **Lung specific elastance** (OTHER) — Measurement of lung specific elastance and lung mechanical characteristics at different PEEP levels and tidal volumes

## Primary Outcomes

- **Specific elastance of the lung** _(time frame: 10 minutes from the start of the study)_

## Locations (1)

- Fondazione IRCC Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

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