One-Hour Positive Pressure Ventilation After a Pressure Support Spontaneous Breathing Trial

Adaptive design for sample size. The study will include up to a maximum of 4.000 patients. First interim analysis will be performed after complete data is available for the first 500 eligible patients. The Bayesian logistic regression model will be adjusted to provide posterior probabilities that will be compared with threshold values to evaluate stopping decisions. Extensive simulations were conducted to develop and understand adaptive design performance, interim analysis timing, and decision criteria. The trial may be stopped early for efficacy or futility. Secondary outcomes will be analyzed with a gatekeeping procedure to preserve overall type I error at 0.05. Thus, the assessment of statistical significance of secondary outcomes will be performed only if the preceding outcome in the hierarchy met the threshold for statistical significance. No adjustment for multiple comparisons will be applied for analyses of tertiary outcomes and subgroups. Thus, these results should be interpreted as exploratory.Secondary outcomes tested in hierarchical order will be: (1) Mechanical ventilation free days within 28 days; (2) Hospital free days within 28 days; (3) Mortality within 28 days.