Covid19, Respiratory Disease
Conditions
Keywords
physiotherapy, exercises, respiratory muscle training
Brief summary
COVID 19 has become a pandemic and has led to high demand on healthcare systems. It can cause a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS CoV-2) which leads to a long hospital stay, developing important functional damage and making hospital discharge difficult. Elderly, obese and people with chronic diseases are more susceptible to contracting the disease, this profile of patients already has a predisposition for respiratory muscle weakness and in this context, after clinical stability, it is still necessary in a hospital environment to approach respiratory and motor physiotherapy. to optimize the recovery of these patients. Objective: Improved breathing, functionality, exercise capacity and muscle strength in non-critical patients. Method: Prospective randomized clinical study where one group received motor and respiratory physiotherapy and the other group performed the same therapy associated with inspiratory muscle training. Results: The findings will be compared before and after the approach and will be presented in graphs and tables. Statistical tests will be used considering a significance level of 5%.
Detailed description
Prospective clinical study in patients with COVID-19 admitted to a non-critical unit of a tertiary hospital. They were randomized into a group that received motor and respiratory exercises and another group that received the same exercises associated with respiratory muscle training.
Interventions
DEVICEpower breathe
respiratory muscle training 1 time a day with power breathe 3 sets of 10 repetitions
Sponsors
Elaine Cristina Pereira <elaine.cpereira@einstein.br>
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Masking description
Stratified randomization was performed in which the impaired chest tomography (absent, less than 50% or greater than 50%)
Intervention model description
Only patients with respiratory muscle weakness that were considered as the maximum inspiratory pressure value (less than or equal to 60% of the predicted value) entered for randomization. Stratified randomization was performed in which the impaired chest tomography (absent, less than 50% or greater than 50%) was taken into account to be randomly allocated to the groups.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* patients diagnosed with COVID-19 through PCR aged over 18 years admitted to non-critical units.
Exclusion criteria
* patients with changes in the level of consciousness and non-transient understanding, exclusive palliative care without prognosis.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| impact on functionality | 14 days | respiratory muscle training appears to impact functionality |
Countries
Brazil
Outcome results
None listed