Efficacy Of Inpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program In Elderly Patients With Acute Exacerbation Of COPD

Al-Azhar University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Elderly (People Aged 65 or More); COPD Received PR; COPD Acute Exacerbation; COPD

Treatments: Other: physical therapy program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07020182

INPATIENT COPD REHABILITATION

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aimed to identify the effect of early pulmonary rehabilitation in elderly patients with Acute exacerbation (AE) of COPD (AECOPD) in exercise tolerance, dyspnea, sleep quality, fatigue, and time to discharge from hospital.

Full description

A prospective supervised RCT (Randomized Controlled Trial) will be done include elderly COPD patients assigned randomly into two groups; Group A performed Physical therapy program, and Group B is control group completed two daily sessions from day 1 of hospital admission till discharge from the hospital .The study duration will be 12 weeks

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 78 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with acute exacerbation of COPD in both gender
• Patient older than 65 years
• Patient with clear consciousness
• Patients had been diagnosed with shortness of breath or dyspnea that was not caused by heart disease, pneumothorax, or pulmonary edema

Exclusion criteria

• Patient with systolic blood pressure lower than 90 mmHg
• Patient with an unstable psychological status, hemoptysis, pneumothorax, pulmonary edema

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A will perform physical therapy program

Experimental group

Description:

Study group In this study we will study the impact of exercise training include breathing exercise, low-load resistance exercise (15%-30% of 1 repetition maximum (1-RM) as tolerated), aerobic training in the form of walking exercise under supervision of physiotherapist.In patients exercise tolerance, dyspnea, fatigue, and time to discharge from hospital. The study will be start from day 1 of hospital admission till discharge from the hospital.The study duration will be 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: physical therapy program

Group B will the control group

No Intervention group

Description:

control group