Spinal Cord Injury Cervical Clinical Trial
Official title:
Randomized Controlled Study on the Evaluation of the T-PEP Method Based on Positive Expiratory Pressure Versus Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation for Lower Respiratory Airways Clearance in Sub-acute, Tetraplegic, Tracheotomized Spinal Cord Injured Patients
In tetraplegic patients with complete cervical spinal cord injury, respiratory complications are very frequent, especially in the sub-acute phase: the lungs often become obstructed due to the accumulation of secretions and the contemporary inefficiency of the cough mechanism. The present pilot study aims, in the context of a rehabilitative Critical Care Unit, at evaluating a not yet published method, called "T-PEP" and based on the principle of Positive Expiratory Pressure, applicable to tracheotomised and mechanically ventilated patients. This method, conceptually simple and low cost, is compared with a known method based on the principle of Percussive Intrapulmonary Ventilation (IPV). Safety and efficacy issues are covered.
Respiratory complications are very frequent, especially in the sub-acute phase following a spinal cord injury and must be treated to avoid even very serious outcomes. In the patient with a complete cervical spinal cord injury (and therefore tetraplegic, from a motor perspective), the lungs often become obstructed due to the accumulation of secretions and the contemporary inefficiency of the physiological mechanism of the cough. Various methods for bronchial clearance are known, but when the patient is tracheotomized and the secretions accumulate in the deepest part of the lung, nowadays the only described method available to mobilize such secretions and allow more efficient respiratory exchanges is based on the principle of Percussive Intrapulmonary Ventilation (IPV). It requires a special device, equipped with a pneumatic air generator, connected to the tracheal cannula. Such treatment needs the assistance of highly trained and expert operators, moreover IPV is a quite complex and expensive technique which has to be applied in a prudential manner in such tetraplegic patients, especially because they show significant hemodynamic instability in the acute/sub-acute phase after the spinal cord lesion. The principle of Positive Expiratory Pressure (PEP) is already known for its efficacy in the secretions' clearance of the lower respiratory airways in other pathological conditions. However, in its classic modalities, it requires the preservation of the functionality of the respiratory muscles. To circumvent this limit in tetraplegic and tracheotomized patients, a respiratory physiotherapeutic procedure called "T-PEP" has been developed at the Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute. Such method is conceptually simple and low cost, it requires the manual assistance of a trained physiotherapist and the use of some components of common use in the clinical practice of Critical Care Units. The present pilot randomized controlled trial aims at comparing the T-PEP and IPV methods, assigned to 2 parallel arms (1:1 allocation ratio), in the context of the Critical Care Unit of the Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute hospital, in sub-acute, tetraplegic, tracheotomized, mechanically ventilated, spinal cord injured patients. The trial covers safety and efficacy issues; cognitive performances are also addressed. ;
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