NCT05821998

Effect of Thoracic Block Technique on Arterial Blood Gases in Children With Atelectasis on Mechanical Ventilation

Effect of Thoracic Block Technique on Arterial Blood Gases, Vital Signs and Lung Compliance in Children With Atelectasis on Mechanical Ventilation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Months – 4 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Statement of the problem: • Does the thoracic block technique has effect on arterial blood gases, vital signs and lung compliance in children with atelectasis on mechanical ventilation? Null hyposis there is no effect of thoracic block technique on arterial blood gases, vital signs and lung compliance in children with atelectasis on mechanical ventilation.

Detailed description

Subjects: The study targets the children from both sexes.diagnosed with atelectasis in intensive care unit. Sample size estimation will be carried out to determine the recruited number of children, selected randomly from Cairo University pediatric specialized hospital, Cairo to participate in the study, Study design: Randomized controlled clinical trial. Children will receive intervention type randomly, 22 child received percussion, vibration, modified postural drainage and the other 22 child will receive percussion, vibration, modified postural drainage and thoracic block technique. Children will be assessed by measuring heart rate, respiratory rate,which reflect the physiological status, arterial blood gases which include partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) and oxygen saturation (SaO2) and dynamic lung compliance which reflect clinical improvement of chest condition before and after ten days of receiving intervention

Conditions

• Atelectasis
• Intensive Care Unit
• Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Thoracic block technique	Manual compression of the healthy lung during expiration associated with the use of invasive or non invasive mechanical ventilation
OTHER	Designed chest physical therapy program	Percussion, vibration and modified postural drainage

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-01
• Primary completion: 2023-05-25
• Completion: 2023-05-31
• First posted: 2023-04-20
• Last updated: 2023-08-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt