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NCT Number: NCT01165606

Effects of Respiratory Physiotherapy in Critically Ill Patients Ventilated for More Than 48 Hours

This study aimed to determine the impact of providing chest physiotherapy on the duration of mechanical ventilation, intensive care length of stay, intensive care and hospital mortality in mechanically ventilated patients.

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Key information

Conditions

Mechanical Ventilation

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Hospital São José

Criciúma, Santa Catarina, 88801-003, Brazil

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients aged more than 18 years, admitted to the ICU needing mechanical ventilation for longer than 48 hours

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with ventilatory failure due to neuromuscular dysfunction

Treatment and study plan

Chest physiotherapy

Procedure

Primary outcomes

  1. intensive care mortality

  2. 120-day mortality

Secondary outcomes

  1. duration of mechanical ventilation

  2. intensive care length of stay

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense - Unidade Academica de Ciecias da Saude

Other

Registry information

Important dates

First posted
Jul 20, 2010
Registry last updated
Jul 20, 2010

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