View clinical trials related to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Filter by:COPD causes an acute deterioration of respiratory symptoms, particularly increased breathlessness and cough, and increased sputum volume and/or purulence. Worsening airflow limitation is associated with an increasing prevalence of exacerbations and risk of death. These exacerbations can range from self-limited diseases to episodes of florid respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation .Hospitalization for COPD patients post COVID is associated with poor prognosis with increased risk of death. Hence techniques of efficient clearance of peripheral airways may reduce airway occlusion by excess mucus and inflammatory cells, improving lung function, exercise capacity and reducing exacerbation frequency.
It will be a randomized control trial at Services Hospital Lahore through convenience sampling technique which will be allocated through simple random sampling through sealed opaque enveloped in to Group A and Group B . Group A: patients will be treated with basic breathing technique whereas Group B: will be treated by will be breathing technique along with diaphragm and abdominal training. The study will be completed within 6 months after synopsis approval from ethical Committee of RCRS & AHS . Data will be entered and analyzed by SPSS version 25. After assessing the normality of data , it will be decided either parametric or non-parametric test will be use within a group or between two groups.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect on maximal strength training on muscle function, lung function and quality of life for patients diagnosed with COPD grade II-III (Gold scale). Each patient will complete a total of 20 exercise session participating in a rehabilitation program for 4 weeks. Physiological and functional testing will be performed 4 weeks before the training intervention, at baseline and after the intervention period.
The pathophysiological characteristics of respiratory failure on exacerbation of chronic pulmonary obstructive disease are the rapid deteriorate of respiratory symptoms, combined with aggravated flow limitation, gas trapping, dynamic pulmonary hyperinflation (DPH), therefore the intrinsic PEEP (PEEPi) increases. It is worthwhile to explore bedside methods to quantify the changes in dynamic pulmonary hyperinflation to guide safe and effective mechanical ventilation in airflow limited patients.
The combined measurement of the pulmonary diffusing capacity to carbon monoxide (CO) and nitric oxide (NO) (DLCO/NO) during exercise may be a useful physiological measure of alveolar-capillary reserve in patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The present study investigated the test-retest reliability of DLCO/NO-based metrics.
This study was conducted to examine the effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease management education given to patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on self-care agency and rational drug use. This study has a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design. A total of 83 patients with COPD were randomly assigned to a intervention group or control group, who met the inclusion criteria.
a monocentric study to evaluate the efficacy of a longitudinal nursing follow up in smoking cessation in patients screened for Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Advances in medicine have led to an increased life expectancy even with complex disease courses of malignant diseases. This leads to frequent critical situations for patients and high risk surgical interventions. The majority of patients and their practitioners are not prepared for the consequences of a complex and possibly fatal course. Palliative medicine makes it possible to anticipate the further course of the disease. As a result, palliative medicine has become increasingly important. The beginning of palliative medical interventions has extended from accompaniment limited to the dying phase to earlier phases of the disease. An early integration of palliative medicine showed a positive effect on the quality of life, the degree of depression and survival in patients suffering from cancer, for example. Furthermore, patients were more able to accept a change in therapy goal at the end of life. Similar results were shown for patients with a non-malignant severe disease such as COPD or heart failure. What needs further investigating is how to adequately screen and identify the patient populations who could benefit from early palliative care, so that they are prepared for potentially critical and life-threatening situations. The investigator's objective is therefore whether the Anesthesiology Outpatient Clinic is a suitable screening location for initiating early integrated palliative care for patients with a serious, life-shortening illness and a high perioperative risk.
ADLIFE is a EU-funded project developing innovative digital health solutions to support healthcare planning and care delivery for patients with advanced chronic conditions (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and/or heart disease failure). ADLIFE's technology innovations will be deployed, used and evaluated in seven healthcare environments in Spain, the UK, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Israel. ADLIFE intends to impact three stakeholders: patients, informal caregivers and health professionals, and consequently across the seven participating international healthcare systems. ADLIFE intervention aims at slowing down the patients' functional deterioration, ensuring their quality of life and promoting shared decision making, reducing the caregiver burden, and improving the health professional working conditions; all this under the scenario of an improvement in the healthcare resource use. The research aims to prove whether the ADLIFE intervention can deliver appropriate targeted and timely care for patients with severe long-term diseases when applied in real-life settings. Based on a mixed-method approach, the study will provide scientific evidence based on the effectiveness, socio-economic, implementation and technology acceptance assessment of ADLIFE compared to the standard of care (SoC) to provide scientific evidence supporting the funding decision-making of the ADLIFE intervention.
This is a 12-week (with an extension to 52 weeks in a subset of participants) study comparing the safety of BGF MDI HFO twice daily (BID) with BGF MDI HFA BID in participants with moderate to very severe COPD.