NCT00571623

Automated Chest Physiotherapy to Improve Outcomes in Neuro

Automated Chest Physiotherap to Improve Outcomes in Neurocritical Care: An Intracranial Pressure Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Duke University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Following current standard-of-care, subjects data (brain pressure) will be recorded for 1 hour and include 10-minutes of data during which the subject recieves chest physiotherapy (CPT). The hypothesis is that CPT is not harmful to brain pressure.

Detailed description

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of chest physiotherapy (CPT) on intracranial pressure (ICP). Because CPT is a normal part of the routine care provided to patients in the neurocritical care unit (NCU) this is an observational study of current practice. 1. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of chest physiotherapy (CPT) on intracranial pressure (ICP). Because CPT is a normal part of the routine care provided to patients in the neurocritical care unit (NCU) this is an observational study of current practice. 2. The study will include only patients who currently have intracranial pressure monitoring devices in place (intraventricular and intraparenchymal). The study will last 1-hour and all subjects in the study will receive 10-minutes of CPT. The 10-minute CPT episode will be randomly assigned to occur 10, 20, 30 or 40-minutes into the study. 3. ANCOVA using SAS will be used to explore for within and between group differences in ICP. This study observes current standard practice, there are no additional risks to the subject.

Conditions

• Brain Injury
• Intracranial Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Chest Physiotherapy	10-minutes of chest physiotherapy using programmed parameters that are components of the specialty beds used in ICU

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-09-01
• Primary completion: 2008-03-01
• Completion: 2008-03-01
• First posted: 2007-12-12
• Last updated: 2014-07-09

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States