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Administrative data

NCT number NCT02083029
Other study ID # CTU070813
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received March 3, 2014
Last updated March 10, 2014
Start date January 2013
Est. completion date January 2014

Study information

Verified date March 2014
Source Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United Kingdom: Research Ethics Committee
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators' hypothesis is that dysregulation of autonomic function, as revealed during a simulated dive reflex, may result in an attenuation of the heart rate response to a greater degree in asthmatics who collapse during exacerbations of asthma than that seen in healthy individuals and in asthmatics without a history of syncope. The investigators will test this by assessing autonomic function through a dive reflex protocol.


Description:

Tests of autonomic function are notoriously difficult to evaluate. Here the investigators required a well validated test of the dynamic cardiovascular response to an abrupt stimulus and considered the diving reflex the most reliable and practical. In man, the diving reflex acts as a vestigial reflex aimed at conserving oxygen storage during apnoeic facial immersion. Facial immersion activates a vagally-induced bradycardia and a sympathetically activated alpha-adrenergic peripheral vasoconstriction and hypertension. There are two triggers of the diving reflex, facial immersion in water and breath hold, both of which can impact on heart rate attenuation. Facial immersion can be further delineated into exposure to cold, wetness and pressure.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 24
Est. completion date January 2014
Est. primary completion date January 2014
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years to 85 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Syncopal Asthmatics: Asthmatic patients with a history of syncope during asthma exacerbations

- Normal Asthmatics: Asthmatic patients on BTS Step 3 treatment (LABA/ICS) with no history of syncope during exacerbations

- Normal volunteers: no history of airways disease or syncope

Exclusion Criteria:

- • Subjects who are pregnant, or have pacemakers in situ are excluded from this study.

- Subjects with significant cardiovascular disease are excluded from this study.

- Those who are non-English speakers and special groups (i.e. mentally ill, children under 16 years of age, and those suffering from dementia) will be excluded.

- No test will be performed on any subject during an acute worsening of asthma or upper airway infection. If the subject has had an upper airway infection in the last three weeks. Another appointment should be made unless the subject is unwilling to come back, in which case testing should continue. The number of days elapsed since the end of the airway infection should be recorded.

- If the subject smokes: citric acid or capsaicin challenges must be performed at least one hour after the last cigarette has been smoked.

- Subjects taking beta-blockers and calcium antagonists will be excluded from this study. No beta agonists should be taken within 6 hours of starting this study.

- If the subject has taken any over the counter (OTC) cough mixture within the last twelve hours: If the subject is willing to come back another time for challenge testing, another appointment should be made. If the subject is unwilling to return another time, testing should proceed and the medication used recorded.

- If the subject has had any food or drink products containing caffeine or menthol within the last hour. If the subject is unwilling to wait for 1 hour before starting the test, the subject should return another time. If the subject is unwilling to return another time, testing should proceed and the medication used recorded.

- If the participant is currently involved in research, or within 3 months of participation in any type of research, they will be excluded from this study.

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Basic Science


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Procedure:
Simulated dive reflex
All subjects undergo simulated dive reflex, with 30s facial immersion and continuous HR and BP monitoring with Nexfin over a period of 6 minutes.

Locations

Country Name City State
United Kingdom Hull Clinical Trials Unit, Respiratory academic department Cottingham Yorkshire

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Change in heart rate from baseline Nexfin and ECG monitoring continuously measuring subject heart rate during dive protocol, over a period of 6 minutes. Beat to beat data is converted into mean HR per 10-second epoch and compared to a baseline value for each subject. 2 minutes prior to facial immersion in water and in 10 second epochs continuously until 3 minutes after facial immersion No
Secondary Change in blood pressure from baseline Nexfin monitoring continuously measuring subject blood pressure (systolic, diastolic and mean arterial pressure) during dive protocol, over a period of 6 minutes. Beat to beat data is converted into mean blood pressure values per 10-second epoch and compared to a baseline value for each subject 2 minutes before facial immersion and continuously throughout dive protocol, over a period of 6 minutes No
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