NCT02613832

Applicability of Techniques of Lung Expansion

Immediate Effect of Expiratory Positive Airway Pressure and Breath Stacking in Non-cooperative Patients Detected by Electrical Impedance Tomography

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The survival of patients with lesions in the central nervous system is usually accompanied by physical and mental sequelae. These impairments favor the prolonged restriction to the bed, which may contribute with changes in respiratory function. In this context, lung re-expansion techniques are used to prevent or treat the various respiratory complications.

Detailed description

The survival of patients with lesions in the Central Nervous System is usually accompanied by physical and mental permanents sequelae. This impairment of cognitive status associated with motor injury favors prolonged restriction of these patients to the bed, which may contribute to the emergence of other health damages. In the clinical practice, lung expansion techniques has been used as a prophylaxis and treatment of respiratory conditions that involve volumetric reductions. However, the deficit of awareness and cooperation difficult the use of several therapeutic resources. There are few interventions that could be proposed due to no need the collaboration to be performed, such as Breath Stacking technique (BS) and Expiratory Positive Airway Pressure (EPAP). The BS is characterized by execution of inspiratory cycles through a one way valve, which allows stacked volume of gas during each inspiration, until it reaches values approximate to maximum inspiratory capacity. While in the EPAP, alveolar pressure is elevated to breath against a expiratory flow resistance generated by a spring load valve. The effects on lung volume promoted BS and EPAP can be safely measured using an electrical impedance tomography (EIT). This recent imaging modality offers information about lung air volumes distribution and have a strong linear correlation with regional ventilation within the thorax. The effects on lung volume promoted BS and EPAP can be safely measured using an EIT monitor. This recent imaging modality offers information about lung air volumes distribution and have a strong linear correlation with regional ventilation within the thorax. Until this moment, there is not description about the effect of lung expansion techniques on regional lung parameters.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	EPAP	The EPAP will be applied with a Spring Load Valve Resistor (Vital Signs, Totowa, NJ, USA), adjusted with a pressure of 10 cmH2O. The Spring Load Valve Resistor will be connected to the expiratory branch of the T-tube. Duration of intervention: 5 minutes.
OTHER	Breath Stacking	The BS will be performed by a T-tube with a one-way inspiratory valve and the expiratory branch occluded. The expiratory occlusion is maintain until observed the presence of a plateau in the impedance plethysmogram by EIT, which corresponds to the absence of inspired air displacement or when a maximum time of 40 seconds was attained. Durantion of intervention:Three BS interventions will be performed at one minute intervals between them.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-08-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2015-01-01
• First posted: 2015-11-25
• Last updated: 2015-11-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil