TELEMEDICINE,Maintenance of a Respiratory Rehabilitation Program in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Summary

Respiratory rehabilitation (RR) has been shown to provide benefits in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) with a degree of evidence A.

These benefits are primarily focused on an increase in the capacity of effort for activities of daily living and in an improvement in the quality of life related to health (HRQOL) a constant to the RR critique is the fact that the benefits achieved with programmes are lost in a progressive and constant way once the patient completes the treatment and lost contact with the team.

The introduction of new technologies in different fields of medicine has been a new approach when it comes to the management of various diseases and treatments in chronic patients. In the case of the RR telemedicine provides a new tool.

COPD disease very prevalent and chronic it is generator of a high economic cost. The possibility of universalizing the rehabilitation treatment would involve a potential savings in this population group ,another potential benefit is as translational trial as part of the development of a new technology and its possible application to clinical practice.

General objective: to determine whether a program of TeleRehabilitation (TeleRR)- Respiratory Rehabilitation Maintenance (RRm) after an intensive initial program of RR, is a useful intervention against the current usual strategy (intensive program of RR and a recommendation of not protected maintenance program).

Method: clinical trial , open, randomized, multicenter, parallel group, and focus of superiority with a strategy of Telerehabilitation program respiratory of maintenance after an intensive RR for 8 weeks in patients diagnosed with grade moderately - severe stable COPD (Bode 3-7).

Conditions

• COPD

Interventions

DEVICE

Telemedicine: Maintenance Respiratory Rehabilitation

Telemedicine: Maintenance Respiratory Rehabilitation. Patients will receive a personal program of maintenance respiratory rehabilitation supported by telemedicine (TeleRR). A personal program of Respiratory rehabilitation consists on: 20-30 minutes of static bicycle exercises + 3 series of ten repetitions from 4 different types of exercises with weights / cufflinks. 3 days a week, every week for a year. They will be in their homes doing the program of treatment prescribed by the physician. They will be provided with the material that is needed: 1 static bicycle, 2-weights / cufflinks, 3-device mobile (smartphone/PDA) + Pulse Oximeter. The patient must send the exercises every day that are scheduled training exercises once have been completed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Instituto de Salud Carlos III

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Hospital de Cruces

  collaborator OTHER

• JUAN B GALDIZ ITURRI

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• JUAN B GALDIZ ITURRI, PhD · Cruces University Hospital, Biocruces Institute

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

75 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-10-31

Primary Completion

2017-02-24

Completion

2017-02-24

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations