NCT02265926

Respiratory Consequences of N95-type Mask Usage in Pregnant Healthcare Workers - A Controlled Clinical Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: National University Health System, Singapore · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 21 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to find out if usage of N95 type respirators affects respiratory parameters in pregnant women so as to provide guidance on N95 respirator usage in pregnant healthcare workers.

Detailed description

The first phase of the study aims to determine the average workload of a nurse. In the second phase of the study, this workload is then translated to walking on a treadmill while pregnant subjects wore special masks open to air, then occluded with N95 mask materials.

Conditions

• Hypoventilation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	N95 mask	N95 mask material used to cover aperture of Hans Rudolph mask

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-09-01
• Completion: 2011-09-01
• First posted: 2014-10-16
• Last updated: 2014-10-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore