The Use of Visual Feedback in Airway Clearance

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cystic Fibrosis

Treatments: Device: Tri-Gym

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01546779

SHEBA-08-5583-OE-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients perform airway clearance incorporating various breathing strategies, to clear secretions from their lungs. Hand held devices may aid mucus expectoration, and also motivate the patient to manage by themselves. Our aims was to study if resistive expiration through "volumetric incentive spirometer" (VISex) can improve lung function in the short term in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• cystic fibrosis patients

Exclusion criteria

• i.v. antibiotic therapy during the experiment day

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

lung function

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Tri-Gym