New sedative could speed recovery for ventilator patients
NCT ID NCT05606315
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jul 02, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests a new sedative called remimazolam for people in the ICU who need a breathing tube after oral or facial surgery. It compares remimazolam to two standard sedatives, propofol and midazolam, to see if it works just as well and helps patients wake up faster. The trial involves 117 adults and is currently on hold.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Remimazolam besylate
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a safer, faster-recovery sedation option for ICU patients after oral surgery.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small pilot trial that is currently suspended, so results are uncertain. It only tests short-term sedation, not long-term outcomes.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 4
Runs after approval, following long-term safety and how well the treatment works in everyday use.
- Participants
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117 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Mar 2022
- Finished
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Feb 2025
- Lead sponsor
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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
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18 years and older
- 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.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥18 years old; * After undergoing oral and maxillofacial surgery, it is expected that a ventilator will be needed to assist with breathing; * mechanical ventilation patients with expected ICU stay time \<72h; * People who need immediate sedative treatment; * Obtain informed consent from subject or legal representative; Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnancy; * Can not get RASS score from patients; * Allergy to drugs; * Proven acute and severe intracranial or spinal nerve disease due to vascular, infection, intracranial dilation, or injury; * Uncompensated acute circulatory failure at randomization (severe hypotension with MAP\<50 mmHg despite adequate fluid resuscitation and vasopressor therapy); * Severe bradycardia (heart rate \<50 beats/min) or degree II-III heart block (unless a pacemaker is installed); * A history of long-term use of benzodiazepines or opioids; * Subjects receiving sedation for indications other than to tolerate ventilators (e.g., epilepsy); * Continuous sedation is unlikely to be required during mechanical ventilation (e.g. Guillain-Barre syndrome); * Patients determined by the clinician to be unlikely to be removed from mechanical ventilation, such as diseases/injuries that primarily affect respirator neuromuscular function and conditions that clearly require long-term ventilation support (such as high spinal cord injury); * Participation in any other interventional study (any study that assigns subjects to different treatment groups and/or performs unconventional diagnostic or monitoring procedures).
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Peking University Shenzhen Hospital
Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, China
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Southern medical university Nanfang hospital
Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China
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