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Comparison of the Efficiency of Mouth-to-nose Breathing With Mouth-to-mouth Breathing

NCT00785447 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2012-04-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to find out the best way of providing artificial breathing during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Current standard CPR involves giving mouth-to-mouth breathing to people requiring CPR. The rescuer pinches the person's nostrils closed and breathes into the mouth of the unconscious person with his or her own mouth.

Some CPR studies have shown that it might be easier and more effective to breathe air into a person's nose instead of the mouth. People receiving CPR often have blocked airways, so breathing into the mouth does not always work.

We think mouth-to-nose breathing may be more efficient and easier to do. In this case, the rescuer closes the person's mouth by pushing the jaw up and holding it still. Then the rescuer breathes into the unconscious person's nose by covering the nose entirely with his or her mouth. We are doing this study to try to find out which way works better.

We will perform both ways of breathing on people who are unconscious (asleep) before planned (non-emergency) surgery and compare their effectiveness.

Conditions

  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • Respiratory Physiology

Interventions

OTHER

Mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-nose breathing

Patients undergoing elective surgery under general anesthesia will be given mouth-to-mouth and mouth-to-nose breaths. The respiration process will be measured and recorded by the help of elastic bands put around the chest and abdomen. The efficiency of the breathing methods will be evaluated.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yandong Jiang, MD, PhD · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
59 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-03-31
Primary Completion
2010-01-31
Completion
2010-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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