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the Effect of Chest Expansion Exercises on Pleural Effusion

NCT04553315 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2020-10-05

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Summary

the study attempted to assess and evaluate the efficacy of implementing chest expansion exercises on patients with pleural effusion and how this programme contribute to reduce pulmonary infection and complications.

To address the objective of the study, the researcher utilized chest expansion exercises consisted of stacked breathing exercise, segmental breathing, chest mobility exercises, deep breathing exercise with use of incentve spirometer and assess the patient before and after exercises by using three tools help to monitor hemodynamic parameters, chest condition, laboratory investigations which help to evaluate pulmonary infection score and complications.

Conditions

  • Pulmonary Infection
  • Complication

Interventions

PROCEDURE

chest expansion exercises

Chest mobility exercises with Incentive spirometer and segmental breathing exercise ) and breath stacking technique e.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ain Shams University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sarah Asmaa

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amal A Mohamed · Assiut University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-07-01
Primary Completion
2020-07-01
Completion
2020-07-30

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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