Smart ventilation may cut lung risks in heart surgery
NCT ID NCT07623109
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether customizing ventilator settings during heart bypass surgery can lower the risk of lung complications like pneumonia or respiratory failure. Researchers will compare a standard approach with one that adjusts settings based on lung mechanics. Eighty adults scheduled for elective on-pump bypass surgery will take part.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- personalized ventilator settings (driving pressure-guided PEEP and mechanical power monitoring)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could lead to a safer way to ventilate patients during heart bypass surgery, reducing lung complications and hospital stays.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage trial with only 80 participants, so results may not apply to all patients. The approach is complex and may not be feasible in all surgical settings.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 80 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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May 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jul 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A government agency
The lead sponsor is a government body.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 80 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Patients with ASA physical status II-III who are scheduled to undergo elective open-heart surgery via on-pump median sternotomy will be included in the study. Patients scheduled for emergency surgery, those planned to undergo off-pump cardiac surgery, patients with a history of myocardial infarction within the last 3 months, patients with advanced COPD, patients with an ARISCAT score of 44 or higher, patients with a BMI of 35 kg/m² or higher, patients with NYHA class IV status, patients receiving preoperative immunotherapy, and patients with severe hepatic or renal failure will be excluded from the study.
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Bursa City Hospital
Bursa, nilüfer, 16000, Turkey (Türkiye)
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