View clinical trials related to Respiratory Aspiration.
Filter by:Smoking is an important public health issue. The self help books may have important motivational implications which associated with deep breath exercises could cease the habit. Goals: Verify the effectiveness of the deep breaths exercises from the self help books along with the two motivational interventions to quit smoking on the anxiety, depression and daily consumption levels. Method: The study will be both prospective and controlled. Individuals will be distributed randomly in 4 different groups: The first group will be doing the deep breath exercises, the second group will read a self help book, the third group will do both reading and exercises and the fourth group will be the control. Anxiety, depression, motivational level and the cigarettes daily consumption will be evaluated previously and after the 15 days intervention. Expected results: Decreasing in anxiety, depression and cigarette consumption plus an increase in the motivation to quit smoking.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a chronic, progressive and disabling disease and can affect functional capacity due to the weakness of the respiratory muscles. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of inspiratory muscle training on functional capacity in patients with OSA. A pilot study will be conducted to calculate the sample. Individuals of both genders, diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea moderate or severe (measured by polysomnography) will be invited and the data collected in the Sleep Laboratory of the Pronto-Socorro Cardiológico de Pernambuco (PROCAPE), located in Recife- PE- BRAZIL. The study deals with a test-clinical randomized double-blind.The intervention groups held inspiratory muscle training (IMT) and the load is equivalent to 40% of maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP). The evaluations will be performed once a week during twelve weeks. Control groups will be submitted to a simulated training with load less than 10% of MIP (insufficient charge to train the muscles), during the same period as the intervention group. The guidelines for the training and weekly evaluations will be performed by the responsible for the researcher physiotherapist in Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Laboratory (LACAP- UFPE). After the training period, the groups will be reassessed by the evaluation tests of functional capacity (ADL- Glittre Test and Ergospirometry), inspiratory muscle strength (manometer) and lung function (spirometry) and then compared. Expected results: The interventional groups will improve their functional capacity.
The main purpose of this study is to define at the bedside the "Titrated-PEEP" level for obese patients that increases the likelihood of extubation and ventilator liberation. The investigators hypothesized that a titrated level of PEEP ("Titrated-PEEP") during SBT will keep the lung recruited, maintain oxygenation, and decrease the work of breathing resulting in successful ventilator liberation. In addition, post-extubation the investigators hypothesize that these patients will require noninvasive ventilatory support in the form of CPAP at the level of "titrated-PEEP" used during the SBT.
Sleep disordered breathing, in which patients my breath deeply, shallowly or stop breathing for periods whilst asleep, is common in heart failure and associated with a poor prognosis. This study aims to validate a novel function available on certain pacemakers which is designed to detect this condition.The investigators hypothesize that ApneaScan can accurately detect moderate to severe sleep disordered breathing in patients with heart failure as compared against an Embletta sleep study. The investigators will also follow up our patients for 2 years to determine whether the severity of sleep disordered breathing as assessed by ApneaScan correlates with prognosis.
Sleep-disordered breathing in children is characterized by recurrent events of partial or complete upper airway obstruction during sleep, resulting in disruption of normal gas exchange (intermittent hypoxia and hypercapnia) and sleep fragmentation. The major symptom is snoring or noisy breathing. Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) is a wide spectrum of disorders that includes primary snoring, UARS and OSA. The main etiology for SDB in children is enlarged tonsils and adenoids and therefore the first line of treatment in pediatric SDB is adenotonsillectomy. The objectives of this study are: 1. To investigate the natural history of primary snoring 2. To investigate the effect of seasonality on SDB severity 3. To compare the effect of adenoidectomy to adenotonsillectomy in the treatment of SDB in children 4. To characterize the children referred for repeated PSG following adenoidectomy or adenotonsillectomy and the indications for second PSG evaluation.
The purpose of the study is to measure markers of inflammatory and oxidative stress known to be associated with cardiovascular morbidity in snoring children. In addition, to measure markers of local inflammation and to evaluate the response to treatment.
A prospective observational multi-centre study for the validation of the ApneaScan algorithm (integrated in ICD devices (with or without cardiac resynchronization therapy function) of the "Incepta" series for the screening of sleep disordered breathing in patients with stable symptomatic chronic heart failure, using portable polygraphy monitoring device ("Embletta Gold") as reference for the Apnea-Hypopnea-Index (AHI). Secondary objectives are the detection of severe sleep disordered breathing in patients with clinically indicated in-laboratory polysomnography, as well as correlations of the AHI detected by ApneaScan with other clinical endpoints like mortality, hospitalization, atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmia.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether different types of breathing therapies in patients with COPD III-IV decrease dyspnea, increase activity and have impact on parasympathetic activities.
Currently used face mask has certain disadvantages; such as, not providing a complete seal in certain patients, causing hand fatigue after holding the mask in place for more than a few minutes, causing claustrophobia in an occasional patient, the need to hold the mask from head of the bed, and possible worsening of the trauma in patients with facial injuries, and the need to use different size masks in different patients. The NuMask overcomes all of these disadvantages and does benefit the patients.
Sleep is known to be a dynamic state of consciousness that is characterized by rapid fluctuations in autonomic activity as well as changes in body postures. Body postures during sleep influence the severity of sleep-disordered breathing because a supine position is associated with an increase in upper airway collapsibility and thus an increase in frequency and duration of snoring and apnea. Use of an adjustable bed to elevate patients' head might improve those conditions. The purpose of the present study is to determine whether use of an automatic adjustable bed is associated with reducing sleep-disordered breathing in patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) due to upper airway problems.