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Electrical Impedance Imaging Techniques in Guiding the Use of Chest Physiotherapy in Patients with Pneumonia

Electrical Impedance Imaging Techniques in Guiding the Use of Chest Physiotherapy in Patients with Pneumonia: a Randomized Controlled Study

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06642701
Enrollment
84
Registered
2024-10-15
Start date
2022-04-01
Completion date
2024-03-30
Last updated
2024-11-05

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Conditions

Community Acquired Pneumonia

Brief summary

In this study, electrical impedance tomography (EIT), a noninvasive and nonradiative technology, is applied to guide the accurate respiratory rehabilitation of pneumonia. On the basis of traditional physical assessment, physiotherapists introduce EIT as an auxiliary imaging technology into the field of rehabilitation, which can increase the accurate understanding of ventilation conditions of local lung lesions, so as to optimize physical therapy methods, which is conducive to the improvement of patients' symptoms, the improvement of lesions, and the improvement of patients' quality of life.

Detailed description

According to the results of traditional assessment, physiotherapists and clinicians discussed the EIT results to give respiratory rehabilitation chest physiotherapy, and adjusted the treatment according to the results of T2 and T3 review. EIT has dynamic monitoring charts and communicates with patients about the changes after treatment.

Interventions

DEVICEElectrical Impedance Tomography

According to the results of traditional assessment, physiotherapists and clinicians discussed the EIT results to give respiratory rehabilitation chest physiotherapy

BEHAVIORALchest physiotherapy

Conventional assessment by physical therapists was followed by respiratory rehabilitation chest physiotherapy.Chest physical therapy for respiratory rehabilitation includes postural drainage, cough technique, forced expiratory technique, positive expiratory pressure, high-frequency chest wall compression, chest tapping, vibration, active breathing cycle technique, etc. All chest physiotherapy was performed by 1 therapist.

Sponsors

Capital Medical University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Age ≥18 years old * Meet the diagnostic criteria of CAP:(1) community onset; (2) pneumonia-related clinical manifestations: recent onset of cough, expectoration or worsening of symptoms of preexisting respiratory diseases, with or without sputum purulence, chest pain, dyspnea or hemoptysis; Fever; Signs of lung consolidation and/or moist rales were heard; Peripheral white blood cell count \> 10×109/L or \< 4×109/L, with or without nuclear shift to the left. (3) Chest imaging examination: new patchy infiltrates, lobar/segmental consolidation, ground glass opacity or interstitial changes, with or without pleural effusion. The clinical diagnosis was established when any one of (1), (3) or (2) was met, excluding pulmonary tuberculosis, lung tumor, non-infectious interstitial lung disease, pulmonary edema, atelectasis, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary eosinophil infiltration and pulmonary vasculitis. * Meet the diagnostic criteria of HAP: Referring to the Chinese adult (2018 edition), it refers to the new-onset pneumonia within 48 hours after admission of patients who have not received invasive mechanical ventilation during hospitalization and are not in the incubation period of pathogenic infection. That is, new or progressive infiltrates appear in the lung, and there are more than two of the following symptoms: fever, increased neutrophils (\>10×109/L) or decreased neutrophils (\<5×109/L), purulent sputum. * The need for chest physical therapy for patients with pneumonia was determined jointly by the rehabilitation treatment team including clinicians, rehabilitation physicians and therapists, and the consent of patients and their families was obtained.

Exclusion criteria

* Invasive or noninvasive mechanical ventilation; * Ventilator-associated pneumonia; * permanent or temporary cardiac pacemaker installed in the body; * Moderate or massive pleural effusion; * Severe pneumonia: disturbance of consciousness; Respiratory rate ≥ 30 breaths /min; PaO2\<60 mmHg, PaO2/FiO2\<300, need mechanical ventilation treatment; Systolic arterial pressure \<90 mmHg; Complicated with septic shock; Chest X-ray showed bilateral or multi-lobar involvement or lesion enlargement ≥ 50% within 48 hours after admission;Urine output\<20 mL/h, or \<80 mL/4 h, or complicated with acute renal failure requiring dialysis treatment;Patients with one or more of these parameters were diagnosed as severe disease; * body mass index\> 30kg/m2; * Lung cancer; * Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and acute exacerbation of bronchial asthma; * Viral pneumonia.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Clinical pulmonary infection scoreBefore respiratory rehabilitation chest physiotherapy (T1), on days 3 (T2) and 7 (T3) after the start of treatment.CPIS is a comprehensive assessment of the severity of infection based on clinical, radiological, and microbiological criteria, including body temperature, white blood cell count, tracheal secretions, oxygenation, chest X-ray, progression of pulmonary infiltrates, and tracheal aspirate culture. The maximum score was 12 and the minimum score is 0 points.. It is of great significance in the diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of pneumonia, and has high application value.The higher the CPIS score, the more serious the patient's clinical condition is and the more timely treatment is needed. When the CPIS score is ≤6, the discontinuation of antibiotics can be considered.

Other

MeasureTime frameDescription
Length of stayFrom admission to discharge, assessed up to 1 dayThe length of stay for each patient.
Short Form 36At baseline and at week 2.The Short Form-36 (SF-36) scale was used to assess quality of life. The lowest score represents the worst health status. SF-36 measurement was performed twice, before and after treatment.
Satisfaction with treatmentEvaluation was conducted 12 hours before discharge.Using the Australian respiratory rehabilitation package, divided into 5 items, each item 5 points, a total of 25. The original questionnaire contained six items on which patients rated their satisfaction with respiratory rehabilitation on a scale of 1 strongly disagree to 5 strongly agree.
Regional Ventilation distributionFrom baseline measurements to immediately after the end of treatment (15 minutes)Difference in regional ventilation distribution before and after institution of physical therapy

Countries

China

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026