Funding for this research was provided by:
Chongqing Science and Technology Commission (Project- cstc2016shms-ztzx13001)
Article History
Received: 23 October 2017
Accepted: 12 July 2019
First Online: 26 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The trial has been approved by the Ethical Committee of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Third Military Medical University – Human Research Protection Program (with the n.201721) and informed consent will be obtained from parents or guardians antenatally or upon NICU admission. The trial is registered in the ExternalRef removed registry (ID:NCT03181958) and will be performed in accordance with the approved guidelines and regulations of the participating institutions.Any modification to the protocol which may impact on the conduct of the study, potential benefit of the patient or may affect patient safety, including changes of study objectives, study design, patient population, sample sizes, study procedures, or significant administrative aspects will require a formal amendment to the protocol. Thus, they will have to be approved by all investigators and will require a new ethical approval.
: Not applicable
: YS has no interest to declare DDL has received research support, travel grants and/or consultancy fee from Carefusion (now Vyaire), Acutronic and Getinge. Those are industries producing neonatal ventilators. These companies are not involved at all in the study and will not have any role in the conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, approval of the manuscript or decision to submit it for publication. Many different ventilators will be variably used in the trial (see InternalRef removed).