NCT00886639

Effect of Oxygen-supply on 6-Minute-Walking-Distance of COPD III/IV-patients

Effect Of Oxygen-Supply On The 6-Minute-Walking-Distance in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) GOLD Stage III/IV Before And After A Multimodal Rehabilitation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 127 (actual)
• Sponsor: Schön Klinik Berchtesgadener Land · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate the six-minute-walking-distance of COPD-patients with breathing oxygen in comparison to breathing normal air. Patients, who increase their walking-distance about more than 15% or 35m only because of breathing oxygen, are so-called "Oxygen Responders." The study is aimed to find attributes of Oxygen Responder and to investigate, if a patient can change the "respond" with higher performance and endurance.

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	6MWT with oxygen	2 liter per minute as continuous-flow
OTHER	6MWT with medical air	2 liters as continuous-flow

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-12-01
• Primary completion: 2009-06-01
• Completion: 2009-08-01
• First posted: 2009-04-23
• Last updated: 2011-11-07
• Results posted: 2011-07-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany