A study to compare the effect of two different techniques of chest physiotherapy on intracranial pressure in head injury patients.
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Traumatic brain injury
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2015/11/006369
- Lead Sponsor
- A
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 46
Inclusion Criteria
The study will be carried out on traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients admitted to neurotrauma ICU at Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi. Adult patients admitted to neurotrauma ICU following TBI with age between 18 to 75 years, of either sex, undergoing continuous ICP monitoring, and requiring chest physiotherapy on regular basis
Exclusion Criteria
Patients with open wound over the thoracic region interfering with effective chest physiotherapy, any tendency towards acute bleeding, fractured ribs or fracture dorsal spine, percutaneous emphysema, presence of haemothorax, pneumothorax, or a chest drainage tube will be excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Intracranial pressure in mmHgTimepoint: Every minute during the procedure of 10 minutes duration and continuing till 10 minutes after the completion of procedure.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Cerebral perfusion pressure <br/ ><br>Timepoint: Every minute during the procedure of 10 minutes duration and continuing till 10 minutes after the completion of procedure.;Hemodynamic parameters i.e. heart rate (beats/min), blood pressure in mmHg (systolic, diastolic and mean), oxygen saturation in % and arterial blood gas parameters (i.e. SaO2, pO2, pCO2, bicarbonate) values.Timepoint: Hemodynamic parameters- Every minute during the procedure of 10 minutes duration and continuing till 10 minutes after the completion of procedure. <br/ ><br>ABG before starting the procedure (baseline) and 10 minutes after completion of procedure.