Please sign in to follow a disease.
New study aims to simplify oxygen weaning for breathing patients
NCT ID NCT07452406
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether a standard step-by-step plan can help adults on high-flow oxygen therapy stop it more quickly and safely. About 2,000 patients across 8 hospitals will be involved. The goal is to see if the plan leads to more patients successfully coming off oxygen within 5 days compared to usual care.
This is an AI summary of the original study and may miss details. Read our disclaimer.
Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
-
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
-
About 2,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
-
Sep 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
-
Jun 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
-
Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
-
18 years and older
- Sex
-
Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
-
Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
Show the full entry requirements Hide the full entry requirements
Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients ≥ 18 years * Receiving HFNC for ≥12 hours * Receiving HFNC to treat acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, defined as requirement of FIO2 ≥ 0.5 to maintain SpO2 at 90-97% and Evidence of increased work of breathing at initiation (e.g., tachypnea with respiratory rate \> 20-25/min, or accessory muscle use), including: * Patients using HFNC to avoid intubation * Post-extubated patients who develop acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, regardless of respiratory support device prior to HFNC use. * The bedside clinical team determines that HFNC weaning is clinically appropriate * Demonstrates clinical stability, defined as: * Respiratory rate ≤ 25 breaths per minute without use of accessory respiratory muscles * SpO₂ \> 90% on HFNC * HFNC FiO₂ ≤ 0.80 Exclusion Criteria: * • Planned procedures requiring intubation * Hypercapnia (PaCO2 ≥ 45 mmHg) * Receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) * Receiving continuous aerosol therapy via HFNC (e.g., inhaled nitric oxide \[iNO\], epoprostenol, or continuous albuterol) * Receiving chronic home use of HFNC, CPAP, or noninvasive ventilation therapy to treat chronic respiratory failure * Receiving HFNC as preventative post-extubation therapy, defined as HFNC use immediately after extubation for less than 48 hr in the absence of clinical signs of respiratory failure.
Get updates
Get notified about this study
Sign up to get updates when this study changes or when new studies for Acute hypoxemic respiratory failure are added.
Genom att skicka in godkänner du våra Användarvillkor
Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
-
The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
-
The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
-
A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
-
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, 60612, United States
More trials for these conditions
Other studies related to the condition(s) this trial covers.
- Steroid dose showdown: can more dexamethasone save lives in respiratory failure?
- Could letting patients breathe on their own sooner protect their lungs?
- Scientists hunt for hidden subgroups in sudden respiratory failure
- Can a smart oxygen device outperform manual care in recovery?
- Low oxygen or organ failure? study aims to uncover true driver of ICU deaths
- AI could predict which ICU patients with breathing failure are at highest risk of death