Medical Information Only. Consult your healthcare provider before considering clinical trial enrollment.

ClinicalTrials.gov 5 recruiting now small index

Acute Respiratory Failure clinical trials

5 of 14 indexed Acute Respiratory Failure trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #1,230 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

14 US clinical trials · 5 currently recruiting · #1,230 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Acute Respiratory Failure: 14 US clinical trials tracked, 5 recruiting.

Acute Respiratory Failure is the subject of 14 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 5 of them currently open to new participants. The most active sponsor is Barnes-Jewish Hospital, running 1 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition acute-respiratory-failure

OPEN 5 | RECR 36% | LATE 0 | EARLY 0 | RANK #1230 | SPON 1

Nearest open-share peer: Attention (36% recruiting · 14 trials)

Acute Respiratory Failur (th…36%Adherence, Medication35.7%Acromegaly28.6%Abscess7.1%Adult Nasal Type Extranodal 0%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Acute Respiratory Failure

Acute Respiratory Failure lists 5 open slots (36% of 14 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Acute Respiratory Failure on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Acute Respiratory Failure is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    5 of 14 indexed trials (35.7%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Acute Respiratory Failure trials is spread across many organizations.

    Barnes-Jewish Hospital accounts for 1 of 14 trials (7.1%). 14 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Acute Respiratory Failure enrolment sits around 235 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 235 among the 14 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 4 of those (28.6%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Acute Respiratory Failure splits between interventional and observational designs.

    9 interventional and 5 observational studies make up this index (64.3% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Open and recent trials

14 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING 1,332 participants

Waveform Capnography Compared to Colorimetric Carbon Dioxide Detection During Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults

Brian Driver

NCT06934876

RECRUITING NA 420 participants

Simulation Trial of Telemedical Support for Paramedics

Boston Medical Center

NCT06441760

RECRUITING 235 participants

Investigating Dyadic Expectations About ARF Survivorship (IDEAS)

Johns Hopkins University

NCT06401239

RECRUITING 100 participants

Blue Protocol and Eko Artificial Intelligence Are Best (BEA-BEST)

University of Louisville

NCT05144633

RECRUITING 32 participants

Virtual Reality in ICU - PARTNER

Kirby Mayer

NCT06876168

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 13,018 participants

The Maximizing Extubation Outcomes Through Educational and Organizational Research (METEOR) Trial

University of Pittsburgh

NCT05523479

COMPLETED NA 1,917 participants

Study of Therapeutic Exercise in Acute Respiratory Failure to Improve Neuromuscular Disability Trial

University of Pennsylvania

NCT03863470

COMPLETED NA 1,106 participants

Bougie or Stylet In Patients Undergoing Intubation Emergently (BOUGIE)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

NCT03928925

COMPLETED 646 participants

Imputation of PaO2 From SaO2

Brigham and Women's Hospital

NCT02598492

COMPLETED NA 204 participants

High Flow Therapy for the Treatment of Respiratory Failure in the ED

Vapotherm

NCT02236559

COMPLETED NA 120 participants

Treatment of Critical Illness Polyneuromyopathy

University of Colorado, Denver

NCT01058421

COMPLETED NA 61 participants

High-Flow Oxygen Therapy Following Tracheostomy

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

NCT03721419

COMPLETED NA 58 participants

Novel Arm Restraint For Critically Ill Patients To Reduce Immobility, Sedation, Agitation and Cognitive Impairment

University of Vermont

NCT04067622

COMPLETED NA 10 participants

Feasibility of Upright Bed Position in ARDS Patients

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

NCT02160561

Phase Distribution

Phase data not available

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Acute Respiratory Failure records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) Device
1 trials
Early mobilization intervention Behavioral
1 trials
Low Flow High Humidity device Device
1 trials
High Flow High Humidity device Device
1 trials
Intervention Arm Other
1 trials
Exersides Device
1 trials
arterial blood gas Other
1 trials
Endotracheal Tube with Stylet Other
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Acute Respiratory Failure trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

North Carolina 3 trials
Massachusetts 3 trials
Colorado 3 trials
Tennessee 2 trials
Pennsylvania 2 trials
Maryland 2 trials
Kentucky 2 trials
Washington 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Acute Respiratory Failure page

14 registered trials, 5 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

  • 5 Acute Respiratory Failure trials are currently recruiting, check eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • Barnes-Jewish Hospital sponsors the most Acute Respiratory Failure trials on record, review their full trial history before evaluating a specific study. See Barnes-Jewish Hospital's trials
  • Bring the specific trial ID (NCT number) to your own doctor before enrolling, this page is a directory, not medical guidance. Read the trial-finding guide

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Acute Respiratory Failure condition card totals 14 registered trials; most-linked intervention Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV); top US site state North Carolina. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.