Acapella Versus Incentive Spirometer on Cardiopulmonary Fitness After Heart Valve Surgery.

NCT ID: NCT05522712

Last Updated: 2022-08-31

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-01-01

Study Completion Date

2023-03-30

Brief Summary

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Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a growing and important public health problem due to the increasing prevalence of degenerative VHD, accompanied by prolonged life expectancy in developed countries. It is associated with high morbidity and mortality.Heart valve surgery is one of the proven treatments of VHD, which corrects hemodynamic abnormalities that could contribute to decrease mortality and improvement in quality of life, despite the improvement in the hemodynamic parameters, the cardiorespiratory fitness level remained low after heart valve surgery.

Cardiac surgeries can cause a series of clinical and functional complication. Postoperative pulmonary complications are the most common, in turn, contribute directly to increase morbidity and mortality and longer hospital stays.Mucociliary clearance is affected after open-heart surgery by the effects of general anaesthesia, intubation and analgesia. Expiratory flow rate is directly related to lung volume and therefore when lung volumes are decreased, coughing will be less effective.

Chest physical therapy plays an important role in the prevention and management of postoperative pulmonary complications. It includes deep breathing exercises, mobilization, postural drainage, percussion and vibration or shaking which were developed to improve bronchial drainage. Airway clearance techniques are commonly used for clearing secretions, improving gas exchange, oxygenation, and work of breathing. Acapella® is an airway clearance device that combines the resistive features of a positive expiratory pressure device with oscillations which diminishes the mucus adhesiveness and decrease the collapsibility of airways.

In the present study, the aim is to compare the effect of acapella and incentive spirometer on cardiopulmonary fitness in patients undergoing heart valve surgery. Those patients may gain a more benefit from acapella application and incentive spirometer so, prevent post-operative pulmonary complication, reduce hospitalization and hospital costs, and improve quality of life. Therefore, early mobilization and chest physiotherapy including acapella and incentive will be started on 1st day after discharge from cardiac care unit (CCU) .

Detailed Description

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This study is designed to compare between effect of acapella and incentive spirometer on cardiopulmonary fitness after heart valve surgery.The patients of this study will randomly assigned into three equal groups in numbers.

Study Group A will receive acapella protocol in addition to traditional chest physiotherapy, early mobilization and sternal precautions.

Study Group B will receive incentive spirometer in addition to traditional chest physiotherapy, early mobilization and sternal precautions.

Control Group C will receive traditional chest physiotherapy, early mobilization and sternal precautions.

The program of treatment for each patient will be applied daily starting from the first day the patient will be extubated (2nd postoperative day) up to 7 days.

Conditions

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Open Heart Surgery Heart Valve Diseases Heart Diseases

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Acapella user

this group will use acapella in addition to traditional chest physiotherapy , early mobility and sternal precautions.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Acapella user

Intervention Type DEVICE

The exercise session will include three sets of deep breaths. Each set will include 10 repetitions which were fol¬lowed by 30 to 60 seconds pause in between. Patients will be instructed to perform slow maximal inspiration, while expiration was done through acapella in a prolonged manner to minimize airway closure and alveolar collapse. In the Acapella device, resistance was increased continuously on each successive day. The technique will be applied for 15 minutes.

Components of Acapella® treatment will include :

* Breathing control
* 10 breaths through the Acapella® device
* Inhaling up to approximately three - quarter maximum breathing capacity
* 2-3 second breath hold
* Active exhalation to Functional residual capacity but not too forcefully (3-4 second)
* The patient did 2-3 huffs at the end of the session, Cough or forced expiration in a set cycle.

Incentive spirometer user

this group will receive incentive spirometer in addition to traditional chest physiotherapy, early mobility and sternal precautions.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Incentive spirometer user

Intervention Type DEVICE

1. Sit upright in a chair or in bed. Hold the incentive spirometer at eye level, hold a pillow to help splint or brace the incision to decrease pain at incision.
2. Put the mouthpiece in mouth and close lips tightly around it. Slowly breathe out (exhale) completely.
3. Breathe in (inhale) slowly through mouth as deeply as possible. As taking the breath, the ball will rise.
4. Try to get the ball as high as possible.
5. When getting it, hold breath for 10 seconds, or as long as possible.
6. Then, breathe out slowly through mouth. Then, Rest for a 30-60 seconds.
7. Repeat 10 times. Try to get the ball to the same level or higher with each breath.
8. repeat 10 times for 3 sets.

Control user

this group will receive traditional chest physiotherapy , early mobility and sternal precautions.

Group Type OTHER

Control

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

This group is a control group will not receive new intervention just traditional chest physiotherapy and mobilization

Interventions

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Acapella user

The exercise session will include three sets of deep breaths. Each set will include 10 repetitions which were fol¬lowed by 30 to 60 seconds pause in between. Patients will be instructed to perform slow maximal inspiration, while expiration was done through acapella in a prolonged manner to minimize airway closure and alveolar collapse. In the Acapella device, resistance was increased continuously on each successive day. The technique will be applied for 15 minutes.

Components of Acapella® treatment will include :

* Breathing control
* 10 breaths through the Acapella® device
* Inhaling up to approximately three - quarter maximum breathing capacity
* 2-3 second breath hold
* Active exhalation to Functional residual capacity but not too forcefully (3-4 second)
* The patient did 2-3 huffs at the end of the session, Cough or forced expiration in a set cycle.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Incentive spirometer user

1. Sit upright in a chair or in bed. Hold the incentive spirometer at eye level, hold a pillow to help splint or brace the incision to decrease pain at incision.
2. Put the mouthpiece in mouth and close lips tightly around it. Slowly breathe out (exhale) completely.
3. Breathe in (inhale) slowly through mouth as deeply as possible. As taking the breath, the ball will rise.
4. Try to get the ball as high as possible.
5. When getting it, hold breath for 10 seconds, or as long as possible.
6. Then, breathe out slowly through mouth. Then, Rest for a 30-60 seconds.
7. Repeat 10 times. Try to get the ball to the same level or higher with each breath.
8. repeat 10 times for 3 sets.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Control

This group is a control group will not receive new intervention just traditional chest physiotherapy and mobilization

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients of both sexes with age ranges (30-40) years old.
* Patients with normal body mass index ranges (18.5-24.9) kg/m2
* Patients undergo mitral valve surgery via median sternotomy.
* Post operative, extubated heart valve surgery patients, who were able to follow the instructions and sign the consent form.
* Patients with hemodynamic stability.
* Patients with controlled diabetes mellitus.

Exclusion Criteria

* \- Patients who required more than 48 hours of intubation after surgery.
* Reintubation in post operative period.
* Patients who had history of respiratory tract infection within a period of three months.
* Patients undergo CABG ,or double valve surgery.
* Patients with any neuromuscular disease.
* Patients with severe renal dysfunction.
* Anemic patients.
* Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus.
Minimum Eligible Age

30 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

40 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Cairo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Samira Abdelrehim Mahmoud shehata

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Zeinab M. Helmy, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Cairo University

Locations

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Faculty of physical therapy

Giza, Dokki, Egypt

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Egypt

Central Contacts

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El sayed Essam El sayed, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 01007099643

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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El sayed Essam Elsayed, PhD

Role: primary

Zeinab Mohammed Helmy, PhD

Role: backup

Other Identifiers

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P.T.REC/012/003310

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id