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Inhaled Fentanyl Citrate & Dyspnea

NCT01853449 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: EARLY_PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 14

Last updated 2017-02-14

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Summary

"Dyspnea" refers to the awareness of breathing discomfort that is typically experienced during exercise in health and disease. In various participant populations, dyspnea is a predictor of disability and death; and contributes to exercise intolerance and an adverse health-related quality-of-life. It follows that alleviating dyspnea and improving exercise tolerance are among the principal goals of disease management. Nevertheless, the effective management of dyspnea and activity-limitation remains an elusive goal for many healthcare providers and current strategies aimed at reversing the underlying chronic disease are only partially successful in this regard. Thus, research aimed at identifying dyspnea-specific medications to complement existing therapies for the management of exertional symptoms is timely and clinically relevant. The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that single-dose inhalation of fentanyl citrate (a mu-opioid receptor antagonist) will improve the perception of dyspnea during strenuous exercise in healthy, young men in the presence of an external thoracic restriction. To this end, the investigators plan compare the effects of inhaled 0.9% saline placebo and inhaled fentanyl citrate (250 mcg) on detailed assessments of neural respiratory drive (diaphragm EMG), ventilation, breathing pattern, dynamic operating lung volumes, contractile respiratory muscle function, cardio-metabolic function and dyspnea (sensory intensity and affective responses) during symptom-limited, high-intensity, constant-work-rate cycle exercise testing with and without external thoracic restriction in healthy, men aged 20-40 years.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Fentanyl Citrate

OTHER

CWS

Chest wall strapping to reduce vital capacity by 20% of its baseline value

DRUG

Placebo

0.9% saline

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Dennis Jensen, Ph.D. · McGill University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-08-31
Completion
2014-08-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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