Respiratory Kinematics During Voluntary and Reflex Cough in Healthy Adults

University of Florida

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Phase 1

Conditions

Cough

Treatments

Drug: Healthy adults who receive capsaicin

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01854268

32-2013

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cough is a defensive behavior that involves three stages. A large inspiratory phase, a compression phase where the vocal folds close and subglottal pressure is developed, and an expiratory phase. Cough serves to protect the upper and lower airways from material such as liquids, solids, or saliva, that have been aspirated. There are two types of cough: voluntary and reflex cough. Voluntary cough involves a cough to command. Reflex cough is a cough that is generated secondary to a stimulus in or near the airway. There has been some research regarding the differences between voluntary and reflex cough. However, no research has described the differences in airflow or movement pattern (kinematics) between the two types of cough. This study seeks to determine the respiratory kinematics and airflow differences between voluntary and reflex cough in healthy participants.

Full description

As a participant, completion of this study will require the following:

Investigators will first place cotton elastic bands around your chest and abdomen so that measures of chest wall and abdominal movements can be measured. Then, tests of your breathing made from pulmonary function testing will be completed.

Investigators will then have you complete a maximum inspiration followed by a maximum expiration three times.

Investigators will ask you to produce a voluntary cough three times into a facemask which is attached to a computer.

Then the investigators will provide you with nebulized water (FOG) through the facemask for up to a minute three times. You will have a minute break in between each presentation.

Finally, the investigators will provide you with a nebulized dose of Capsaicin, which is derived from hot peppers, through the same facemask used in all of the above tasks. You will receive three doses of capsaicin and be provided with water at any time during the study.

Enrollment

25 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Healthy adults between the ages of 18-80 years.
Ability to provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

No history of smoking within the last 5 years as this reduces the sensitivity to capsaicin
No history of neurological disease (i.e. Parkinson's disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, etc.)
No known allergy to capsaicin
No history of respiratory disease (i.e. asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or respiratory infection within the last 5 weeks.)