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. 2018 Jul 9;2018(7):CD011151. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011151.pub3

NCT03157479.

Trial name or title Intraoperative protective ventilation for obese patients undergoing gynaecological laparoscopic surgery (Inprove4large)
Methods RCT
Site: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
Participants Adult obese (body mass index > 35 kg/m2) women undergoing laparoscopic surgery
Interventions Treatment group: tidal volume 6–7 mL/kg of predicted body weight and recruitment manoeuvres
Control group: tidal volume 10 mL/kg of predicted body weight and PEEP 5 cmH2O
Outcomes

  1. Pneumonia
Starting date 1 May 2017
Contact information Domenico Luca Grieco, MD; Email: dlgrieco@ymail.com
Notes Recruiting, last update posted 16 June 2017 (accessed 8 January 2018)

cmH2O: centimetres of water; ICU: intensive care unit; kg/m2: kilogram per square metre of body surface area; mL/kg: millilitres per kilogram of body weight; PEEP: positive end‐expiratory pressure; RCT: randomized controlled trial.