NCT04418700

Effects of the Breath Stacking Technique After Upper Abdominal Surgery

Effects of the Breath Stacking Technique After Upper Abdominal Surgery: Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effects of the breath stacking technique in patients after upper abdominal surgery. Half of the patients receive routine physical therapy associated with the Breath Stacking technique, while the other half will receive only routine physical therapy.

Detailed description

This randomized controlled study aims to evaluate the effects of the Breath Stacking technique in patients undergoing upper abdominal surgery on clinical, physiological and cardiopulmonary variables. These individuals were randomized to compose the control group (CG) and the intervention group (GBS). The routine physical therapy was performed in both groups and in the GBS two daily sessions of up to 20 minutes of Breath Stacking technique were applied. To verify the effect of this intervention, before and after the protocol, patients underwent the following evaluations: algometry, cirtometry in the axillary line , umbilical line and the xiphoid process, ventilometry, spirometry and manovacuometry.

Conditions

• Abdominal Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Breath Stacking	The patients will perform the maneuver through successive inspiratory efforts for 20 s. Subsequently, the expiratory branch will be unobstructed to allow expiration. This maneuver will be repeated 5 times in each series, with intervals of 30 seconds between them. The technique will be performed with the trunk inclined 30º in relation to the horizontal plane, in 3 series, with interval of 2 min completing 15 min of therapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-01
• Primary completion: 2021-03-31
• Completion: 2021-03-31
• First posted: 2020-06-05
• Last updated: 2021-04-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil