Home-based Optimization of Mechanical Ventilation in Children

Description

Some children who are born very early or have other congenital conditions may develop severe, long-term lung problems that make them need to use a breathing machine to live at home. There are no studies that identify the best ways to monitor a home breathing machine or adjust its settings. Increasingly, healthcare systems are using information collected at home to make more informed decisions about a patient's healthcare treatment, which is called "remote patient monitoring". This study will ask whether using remote patient monitoring can provide more complete information to a child's team of doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists to help a child's healthcare team and family make more informed decisions about a child's home ventilator care. The investigators are hypothesizing it can safely decrease the level of breathing support children need while also avoiding emergency and hospital care and supporting their growth, development, and participation in daily life.

Conditions

Ventilator Weaning

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Some children who are born very early or have other congenital conditions may develop severe, long-term lung problems that make them need to use a breathing machine to live at home. There are no studies that identify the best ways to monitor a home breathing machine or adjust its settings. Increasingly, healthcare systems are using information collected at home to make more informed decisions about a patient's healthcare treatment, which is called "remote patient monitoring". This study will ask whether using remote patient monitoring can provide more complete information to a child's team of doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists to help a child's healthcare team and family make more informed decisions about a child's home ventilator care. The investigators are hypothesizing it can safely decrease the level of breathing support children need while also avoiding emergency and hospital care and supporting their growth, development, and participation in daily life.

Remote Monitoring to Optimize Ventilatory Support in Children with Invasive Home Mechanical Ventilation

Home-based Optimization of Mechanical Ventilation in Children

Condition
Ventilator Weaning
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Chicago

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

    Ages Eligible for Study

    to 17 Years

    Sexes Eligible for Study

    ALL

    Accepts Healthy Volunteers

    No

    Collaborators and Investigators

    Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago,

    Carolyn C Foster, MD, MS, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

    Study Record Dates

    2025-05-01