Active clinical trials for "Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive"

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a disease with a very high morbidity and mortality rate. When the lung function drops lower and lower, patients will bear great affliction physically and mentally. How to improve the quality of life in patients with COPD is a hot topic in the study of COPD now. Baduanjin, as one of the traditional Chinese qigong exercises, has the features of generous stretch, soft consistency, dynamic but static, which is an appropriate movement pattern for COPD patients.

For patients admitted to the medical ward, it is often difficult to predict if their clinical condition will deteriorate, however subtle changes in vital signs are usually present 8 to 24 hours before a life-threatening event such as respiratory failure leading to ICU admission, or unanticipated cardiac arrest. Such adverse trends in clinical observations can be missed, misinterpreted or not appreciated as urgent. New continuous and wearable 27/7 clinical vital parameter monitoring systems offer a unique possibility to identify clinical deterioration before patients condition progress beyond the point-of-no-return, where adverse events are inevitable. As part of the WARD-COPD project, this validation study aim to assess the accuracy of physiologic parameters derived from standard and wireless patient monitors

The purpose of this study is to assess the current smoking status and smoking cessation attempts among smokers or recent smoking quitters during the perioperative period, to describe postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) and other postoperative complications (PCs) following a lung surgery, and to describe the smoking cessation methods and services patients received from their health care professionals (HCPs) and participant's satisfaction among participants with lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), a pulmonary lesion (example, nodule, or ground glass opacity) or other pulmonary conditions who are admitted to the thoracic surgical unit of the participating hospitals in China.

Inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)/long-acting β2-agonist (LABA) combination is commonly prescribed to treat COPD; we will perform a retrospective analysis on the effect of adding a long-acting muscarinic receptor antagonist (LAMA) to ICS/LABA combination in COPD.

The aim of this study is to quantify the burden of severe AECOPD in South Korea, by investigating the association between frequency of severe AECOPD and clinical and health-care utilization outcomes.

Patient ventilator asynchrony is a common problem in mechanically ventilated patients .It is associated with adverse effects including increased work of breathing, patient discomfort, increased need for sedation, prolonged mechanical ventilation , weaning difficulties and weaning failure. 100 mechanically ventilated COPD patients were enrolled in this prospective study .Detection of patient ventilator asynchrony was done on 30-minute sessions at 12, 24, 36, and 48 hours following intubation by visual assessment of pressure, flow and volume graphs on ventilator .

To evaluate the effect of Mucomyst nebulizer therapy on improvement in symptoms and quality of life in COPD patients with difficulty of expectoration.

COPD is a common, preventable and treatable disease that is characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation that is due to airway and/or alveolar abnormalities, usually caused by significant exposure to noxious particles or gases. COPD is third leading cause of death worldwide. "Ideal cardiovascular health," a set of factors, including several directly along the causal pathway of transitions from health to disease, that protect against the development of cardiac disease. Working definition of respiratory health are the dual concepts of pulmonary reserve, as reflected by peak lung function in young adulthood, and susceptibility, as reflected by risk for future accelerated decline in lung function after the attainment of this peak. There is relationship between physical activity, disease severity, health status and prognosis in patients with COPD. Common pulmonary function tests include spirometry, lung volumes, and diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO). Spirometry assesses airflow limitation. Diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide provides information on the health of alveolar-capillary membrane. This study will be cross-sectional correlational study. It will find correlation between person's physical activity and respiratory health. IPAQ and 6MIN walk test will be used as measuring tools of physical activity and FEV1 and TLV for estimating respiratory health. Spirometer will be used to measure respiratory health. Data will be collected from different hospital settings and analysed using SPSS software. All ethical considerations will be followed.

High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) is a device that delivers10 to 70 L min-1 of heated, humidified 100% oxygen via nasal route. It provides positive airway pressure, decreases dyspnea, decreases the work of breathing, and improves comfort

In the literature, the effects of acute oxygen administration on exercise tolerance and related symptoms have often appeared to be contradictory. Some investigations have reported benefits from acute oxygen supply during exertion, including increased exercise performance, reduced dyspnea, and better cardiorespiratory adaptations, whereas other studies have reported no improvement. Recently, we advanced then the hypothesis that some patients would be non-responders and even worsen under oxygen treatment. The preliminary results confirmed our hypothesis since we demonstrated that while 56% of the patients were improved with supplemental oxygen, 16% were non-responders and 28% were negative-responders (decreased performance and increased dyspnea during endurance exercise with supplemental oxygen). However, this was a pilot study offering preliminary insights and tentative conclusions that must be confirmed in a larger case series. The aims of this retrospective study was : To confirm on cohorte and with clinical test (the 6-minute walking test - 6WT) the deleterious responses to acute oxygen supplementation in LTOT (long terme oxygenotherapy treatment) and non-LTOT patients who exhibit exercise desaturation. To identify the predictive factors among the clinical data (i.e., anthropometric, spirometric and gazometric data) and/or functional data recorded during rehabilitation program