A Comparison Study of Two Respiratory Physical Therapy Methods and Standard Medical Treatment for Treating COPD Patients During Acute Exacerbation

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Chronic Bronchitis
• Interventions: Procedure: respiratory physical therapy manual technique- Autogenic Drainage; Device: respiratory physical therapy technique- IPV

• Registration Number: NCT02140892
• Lead Sponsor: Sheba Medical Center

Brief Summary

One of the main goals of the respiratory physical therapy is to help people who are suffering from accumulating of secretions in their airways and lungs.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients are often hospitalized with an Acute Exacerbation of their medical condition.

Those patients usually get only the standard medical care during the acute phase and don't get respiratory physical therapy treatment.

The study's main aim is to investigate if respiratory physical therapy treatment in addition to standard medical care during the acute phase, can improve the respiratory and medical condition and reduce hospitalization stay.

In order to do so we will compare three groups of COPD patients during acute exacerbation; two groups will get one out of two respiratory physical therapy techniques; manually or Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilator (IPV) in addition to standard medical care and the third group will get standard medical care alone.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2014-05
• Study First Submitted: 2014-05-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-05-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-05-15
• Study First Posted: 2014-05-16
• Last Update Posted: 2014-05-16
• Study Start: 2014-07
• Primary Completion: 2015-07
• Study Completion: 2015-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 75

Inclusion Criteria

• clinical diagnosis of Acute Exacerbation of COPD or Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Bronchitis
• Respiratory Rate>25
• PaCO2> 45 mmHg
• 7.35 < PH < 7.38

Exclusion Criteria

• intubation
• apnea
• glasgow coma scale < 8
• pneumothorax
• FEV1 < 50% predicted
• Ischemic Hearth Disease

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
respiratory physical therapy manual technique	respiratory physical therapy manual technique- Autogenic Drainage	respiratory physical therapy manual technique- Autogenic Drainage
respiratory physical therapy technique- IPV	respiratory physical therapy technique- IPV	respiratory physical therapy technique- Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
length of stay in the hospital	up to three months