Chest Compression Technique in Infants

Atelectasis Clinical Trial

Official title:

EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF MANUAL CHEST COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE IN INFANTS WITH PULMONARY ATELECTASIS- Clinical CONTROLLED TRIAL

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01858844
• Other study ID #: CHEST COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 9, 2013
• Last updated: May 16, 2013
• Start date: August 2012
• Est. completion date: November 2012

Study information

• Verified date: May 2013
• Source: Hospital Sirio-Libanes
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in ResearchBrazil: National Health Surveillance Agency
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Evaluate the effect of chest manual compression technique (CCT) in the variables of oxygenation, hemodynamic and respiratory work in infants with respiratory diseases that are associated with atelectasis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 38
• Est. completion date: November 2012
• Est. primary completion date: November 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A to 24 Months

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Group A

• Infants (29 days to 24 months of age).

• After the legal representatives of the patients have read agreed and signed an informed consent

• Infants diagnosed with atelectasis by medical staff, with chest x-ray with opacification directors

• Respiratory disease

Group B (control group)

• Infants whose inpatient diagnosis has not been respiratory ailments that did not show any pain at the time of the evaluation.

For the control group followed the same evaluation criteria of group A.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Infants with respiratory disorders that don't have with atelectasis

• Infants who showed signs of irritability or intense crying at the time of evaluation

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Atelectasis
• Pulmonary Atelectasis

Intervention

Other:
• CHEST COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE (CCT)
The CCT was held with the placement of one of the hands were not engaged in. The following has been applied a symmetric oblique direction, pressure from top to bottom on the half thorax rib cage so that it went according to the complacency of the ribcage. This pressure was applied in the expiratory phase and held for 10 seconds, totaling 6 repetitions of the maneuver during 60 seconds. The other hand held on the contralateral iliac crest to stabilize the patient. The technique was held during 5 consecutive minutes with range of a respiratory incursion every 60 seconds. Immediately after and 10 minutes after the end of the application of the technique, the data was measured again.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Hospital do Mandaqui	São Paulo	SP

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospital Sirio-Libanes

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Changes in clinical signs	Variation in clinical signs of oxygenation and respiratory and cardiac frequency	baseline, within one minute after and 10 min after CCT	Yes
Secondary	Changes in signs of respiratory distress	Signs of respiratory distress	baseline, within one minute after and 10 min after CCT	Yes