Acute Effects of a Flutter Device and Chest Wall Compression on Respiratory System Impedance in Bronchiectasis Patients

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• Conditions: Bronchiectasis
• Interventions: Device: Flutter; Other: Control; Other: Chest Compression; Other: Impulse Oscillometric; Other: Dyspnea scale; Other: Acceptability and tolerance; Device: Pulse oximetry; Other: Difficulty sputum

• Registration Number: NCT02509637
• Lead Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo

Brief Summary

Bronchiectasis is characterized pathologically by the abnormal and permanent dilation of bronchi caused mainly by the perpetuation of inflammation and impaired clearance of secretions. Physical therapy is essential in the treatment of these patients, using its various techniques and devices. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impedance of the respiratory system, by impulse oscillometry, after breathing exercises with chest compression or flutter in patients with bronchiectasis, considering that there are no results in the literature on the effect of these techniques in the small airways of these patients.

Detailed Description

Bronchiectasis patients and healthy subjects will be evaluated before and after a 30 minutes session of control, breathing exercises with flutter valve, that is a device that produces oscillation and positive pressure during the expiratory phase, or chest compression, that is a manual manoeuvre in the right and left sides of the lower chest, all of them in a sitting position. The main outcome will be obtained by impulse oscillometry, that is a method to access large and small airways, to evaluate the resistance (R), reactance (X), reactance area (AX) and resonant frequency (Fres) of respiratory system for the whole breath and for inspiratory and expiratory phase. Additionally, will be analysed the dyspnea using the Medical Research Council scale; acceptability and tolerability scale; pulse oxymetry; difficulty of expectoration score; and volume, adhesivity and purulence of sputum.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2015-07-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-07-27
• Study First Posted: 2015-07-28
• Study Start: 2015-08
• Primary Completion: 2016-09
• Study Completion: 2016-09
• Status Verified: 2017-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-02-21
• Last Update Posted: 2017-02-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• aged between 30 and 80 years
• diagnosed with bronchiectasis not resulting from cystic fibrosis, defined by history and full clinical examination and confirmed by computed tomography.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Chest pain
• acute hemoptysis
• recent history rib fracture and pneumothorax
• respiratory infection in the last 4 weeks prior to study
• cystic fibrosis
• asthma
• fistula.
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Flutter Intervention	Flutter	After initial evaluation, the subjects will perform breathing exercises with quiet inspiration and prolonged expiration on the device for thirty minutes, with breaks of one minute every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Flutter Intervention	Dyspnea scale	After initial evaluation, the subjects will perform breathing exercises with quiet inspiration and prolonged expiration on the device for thirty minutes, with breaks of one minute every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Chest Compression Intervention	Dyspnea scale	After initial evaluation, the subjects will be instructed to perform deep breaths between three quiet inspiration brought, and expiration will be accompanied by bilateral compression with the therapist's hands on the lower ribs during thirty minutes with one minute intervals of rest every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Chest Compression Intervention	Pulse oximetry	After initial evaluation, the subjects will be instructed to perform deep breaths between three quiet inspiration brought, and expiration will be accompanied by bilateral compression with the therapist's hands on the lower ribs during thirty minutes with one minute intervals of rest every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Crontrol Intervention	Control	After initial evaluation, patients will be remain seated quiet breathing without any guidance for thirty minutes. Immediately after this time will be held reassessment with Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied to acceptance and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for wight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Crontrol Intervention	Dyspnea scale	After initial evaluation, patients will be remain seated quiet breathing without any guidance for thirty minutes. Immediately after this time will be held reassessment with Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied to acceptance and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for wight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Chest Compression Intervention	Difficulty sputum	After initial evaluation, the subjects will be instructed to perform deep breaths between three quiet inspiration brought, and expiration will be accompanied by bilateral compression with the therapist's hands on the lower ribs during thirty minutes with one minute intervals of rest every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Crontrol Intervention	Acceptability and tolerance	After initial evaluation, patients will be remain seated quiet breathing without any guidance for thirty minutes. Immediately after this time will be held reassessment with Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied to acceptance and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for wight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Flutter Intervention	Impulse Oscillometric	After initial evaluation, the subjects will perform breathing exercises with quiet inspiration and prolonged expiration on the device for thirty minutes, with breaks of one minute every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Flutter Intervention	Acceptability and tolerance	After initial evaluation, the subjects will perform breathing exercises with quiet inspiration and prolonged expiration on the device for thirty minutes, with breaks of one minute every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Flutter Intervention	Difficulty sputum	After initial evaluation, the subjects will perform breathing exercises with quiet inspiration and prolonged expiration on the device for thirty minutes, with breaks of one minute every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Chest Compression Intervention	Acceptability and tolerance	After initial evaluation, the subjects will be instructed to perform deep breaths between three quiet inspiration brought, and expiration will be accompanied by bilateral compression with the therapist's hands on the lower ribs during thirty minutes with one minute intervals of rest every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Flutter Intervention	Pulse oximetry	After initial evaluation, the subjects will perform breathing exercises with quiet inspiration and prolonged expiration on the device for thirty minutes, with breaks of one minute every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Crontrol Intervention	Pulse oximetry	After initial evaluation, patients will be remain seated quiet breathing without any guidance for thirty minutes. Immediately after this time will be held reassessment with Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied to acceptance and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for wight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Crontrol Intervention	Difficulty sputum	After initial evaluation, patients will be remain seated quiet breathing without any guidance for thirty minutes. Immediately after this time will be held reassessment with Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied to acceptance and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for wight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Chest Compression Intervention	Chest Compression	After initial evaluation, the subjects will be instructed to perform deep breaths between three quiet inspiration brought, and expiration will be accompanied by bilateral compression with the therapist's hands on the lower ribs during thirty minutes with one minute intervals of rest every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Chest Compression Intervention	Impulse Oscillometric	After initial evaluation, the subjects will be instructed to perform deep breaths between three quiet inspiration brought, and expiration will be accompanied by bilateral compression with the therapist's hands on the lower ribs during thirty minutes with one minute intervals of rest every four minutes. Immediately after the exercise will be performed new assessment against Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied the acceptability and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for weight, adhesiveness and purulence.
Crontrol Intervention	Impulse Oscillometric	After initial evaluation, patients will be remain seated quiet breathing without any guidance for thirty minutes. Immediately after this time will be held reassessment with Impulse Oscillometry. Then patients will be kept for 30 minutes at rest and at the end will be applied to acceptance and tolerance scale and a third evaluation with Impulse Oscillometry. The secretions expectorated during the protocol will be evaluated for wight, adhesiveness and purulence.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Difficulty sputum	In the primary evaluation, and after seven and fourteen days.	Patients inform the ease or difficulty in expectoration in accordance with a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 = no difficulty and 5 = extremely difficult. (Burioka, 1998). The scale will be applied at baseline and always after the intervention to assess whether there is difference in the difficulty of sputum between sessions.
Respiratory System Impedance	In the primary evaluation, and after seven and fourteen days.	Will be evaluated the resistance (R), reactance (X), reactance area (AX) and resonance frequency (Fres) before, immediately after the intervention and after 30 minutes of rest in order of identifying changes in the components of resistance of airways of individuals.
Secretions weight	In the primary evaluation, and after seven and fourteen days.	The secretions are collected in the universal and heavy collectors on a precision balance.They will be evaluated in the total weight measurements and a dry weight and wet mucus. The weight of mucus of each interventions are compared to determine a technique with improved efficiency for removal of secretions.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Adhesiveness of expectorated secretion:	In the primary evaluation, and after seven and fourteen days.	Immediately after the separation of secretion with saliva, mucus will be evaluated for its adhesion award a note according to visual scale described by Lopez-Vidriero et al., 1973. Test samples giving the adhesive index between 1 (fully adhered) and 2 (small movement under gravity) will be classified as adhesive and between 3 (slow moving mass) and 4 (easy handling) will be classified as non-adhesive.
Acceptability and tolerance	In the primary evaluation, and after seven and fourteen days.	30 minutes after the treatment session or control, patients will complete scales 1-7, 1: extremely and 7: none) on usefulness, ease to understand the instructions, easy to perform the exercises, degree of fatigue and discomfort (adapted EATON, 2007).
Pulse oximetry	In the primary evaluation, and after seven and fourteen days.	During therapy the patient will remain monitored with digital oximeter and the information will be recorded before and after the procedures
Dyspnea scale:	In the primary evaluation, and after seven and fourteen days.	Dyspnea will be evaluated across the range Medical Research Council (MRC) for use in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Brazil. The MRC scale comprises only five items, and the patient chooses the item corresponding to as dyspnea limits their activities of daily living. The patient reports its subjective degree of dyspnea choosing a value ranging from 1 to 5, with 1 (only suffers from shortness of breath during intense exercise), 2 (suffers from shortness of breath when walking briskly or climbing a slight slope) 3 (walks slower than people of the same age because of breathlessness or has to stop for breath even when walking slowly), 4 (stops for breath after walking less than 100 m or after a few minutes) and 5 (feel so short of breath that does not go over the house, or feel short of breath when getting dressed) (KOLEVIS et al., 2008).

Trial Locations

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Ribeirão Preto Medicine School, University of São Paulo; 🇧🇷 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil