Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) and Physiotherapy

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Respiratory Disease

Treatments: Other: Physiotherapy; Procedure: Electrical impedance tomography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01932567

physioEIT

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the effect of different airway clearance techniques on lung ventilation by electrical impedance tomography.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >18 years old
• Surgery under anesthesia (PEP and incentive spirometry) or healthy subjects
• Intervention time before first bed lift
• Cooperative
• Can perform devices techniques correctly

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with pacemaker, implantable pumps or automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator
• Patients with pulmonary disease (acute or chronic)
• Patients with cognitive problems
• Presence of patches or wounds in EIT belt zone placement
• Patients with initial pain > 2/10
• Patients with severe obesity (BMI > 35)

Trial design

30 participants in 3 patient groups

Positive expiratory pressure

Experimental group

Description:

Use of positive expiratory pressure during 3 minutes

Treatment:

Procedure: Electrical impedance tomography

Other: Physiotherapy

Incentive spirometry

Experimental group

Description:

Use of incentive spirometry during 3 minutes

Treatment:

Procedure: Electrical impedance tomography

Other: Physiotherapy

manual airway clearance technique

Experimental group

Description:

Use of manual airway clearance technique during 3 minutes

Treatment:

Procedure: Electrical impedance tomography

Other: Physiotherapy