Effects of Respiratory Physiotherapy in Critically Ill Patients Ventilated for More Than 48 Hours

Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense - Unidade Academica de Ciecias da Saude

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mechanical Ventilation

Treatments: Procedure: Chest physiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01165606

Physiotherapy

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to determine the impact of providing chest physiotherapy on the duration of mechanical ventilation, intensive care length of stay, intensive care and hospital mortality in mechanically ventilated patients.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients aged more than 18 years, admitted to the ICU needing mechanical ventilation for longer than 48 hours

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with ventilatory failure due to neuromuscular dysfunction

Trial design

0 participants in 1 patient group

Physiotherpy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Chest physiotherapy