NCT00784004

Investigation of Efficiency of Breathing With Different Breathing Patterns

Investigation of Efficiency of Breathing With Different Breathing Patterns in Healthy Volunteers and Patients With Respiratory Failure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Our aim in this study is to investigate the efficiency of the breathing with different breathing patterns. Ten volunteers and twenty patients having respiratory problems will be coached on their breathing through specific masks which will provide four different breathing patterns. These patterns will be 1) Breathing in through the nose only and out through the mouth only 2) Breathing in through the mouth only and out through the nose only 3) Breathing in and out through the nose only 4) Breathing in and out through the mouth only The data obtained from volunteers and patients will be compared within and between the groups.

Conditions

• Respiratory Physiology
• Respiratory Insufficiency
• Breathing Patterns

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Breathing Patterns	All subjects will breathe in four different breathing patterns which are provided by specific masks. Patterns are as the following: 1. Breathing in through the nose only and out through the mouth only 2. Breathing in through the mouth only and out through the nose only 3. Breathing in and out through the nose only 4. Breathing in and out through the mouth only

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2011-06-01
• Completion: 2011-06-01
• First posted: 2008-11-03
• Last updated: 2014-12-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States