Active clinical trials for "Lung Diseases, Obstructive"

The primary aim of this randomised controlled trial is to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of low-intensity exercise with blood flow restriction (BFR) in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD). The investigators will also collect functional and physiological outcome data to explore potential mechanisms and provide data for a power calculation to be used in a future randomised controlled trial (RCT) to ensure that subsequent full scale clinical RCT has maximum reach and benefit. The primary experimental hypothesis that underpins these aims is: • Low-intensity exercise with BFR is a tolerable, acceptable, and safe exercise modality in COPD patients. 40 patients attending clinics at University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) National Health Service (NHS) Trust with diagnosed COPD will be randomly allocated to a home-based body weight exercise intervention either with or without the blood flow restriction (n=20 in each group). The body weight exercise will consist of five body weight exercises including: sitting knee extensions, standing knee raise, heel-toe raises, bilateral mini-squat behind a chair, and chair rise/sit to stand. In addition to the pre and post intervention visits, the initial two training sessions for both groups will be directly supervised in the research centre. These sessions are to ensure all exercises are performed correctly and safely and the patient become familiar with the exercises and BFR equipment and mobile application, which provides exercise guidance and session recording.

The objectives of this study are to evaluate Efficacy and safety of beta-glucan supplement in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.

This study evaluates the safety and efficacy of high tidal volumes generated by "Adapted Support Ventilation (ASV) mode' in mechanically ventilated severe COPD patients. Every patient will be ventilated consecutively with ASV and Volume Control (VC) modes at 2 different levels of minute volume in 2 sets. ASV mode is expected to be safe measured by adequate inspiratory transpulmonary pressures and expected to be as effective as VC mode with lower intrinsic positive end expiratory pressure (iPEEP) levels.

This study aims to support EOL decision-making in patients with advanced COPD and their family members. A parallel two-arm single-blinded randomised controlled trial will be conducted to evaluate the effects of a specific decision support intervention. A total of 226 patients with advanced COPD and their designated family members will be recruited from hospital wards and outpatient clinics.

All calls that end up on the out-of-hours general practitioners' service (OHGPS), which contain a demand for an urgent home visit, are passed on to the on-call general practitioner (GP). These calls are randomized into two arms: after the patient's informed consent, they are assigned either to one arm where the monitoring device, PICO, is applied together with the GP's general care or to the other arm where only the usual care is provided. All data such as suspected diagnosis, treatment or referral, influence of the parameters, ECG and/or alarms on the management and the user-friendliness are recorded. After 30 days, the diagnosis and evolution is requested from the patient's own GP or, if referred to a hospital, in the hospital in order to be able to compare the effect of the approach by the GP between both arms. The aim is to investigate if 1/ the use of the PICO monitoring device could improve GPs' decisions to refer to hospital or not in urgent cases; 2/ there is a difference between the diagnosis with and without the use of the monitoring device using the final diagnosis by the electronic health record of the own GP of the patient; 3/ the call to send a GP for an emergency contained sufficient information for the OHGPS phone operator to take an appropriate decision; 4/ the build-in alarms help the GP during his intervention; 5/ the PICO is easy to use during an emergency; 6/ the use of the device makes them feel more confident in transmitting the information to the Medical Emergency Team.

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of L-menthol on breathlessness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) is an incompletely reversible and progressive pulmonary disease characterized by airflow restriction, which is the third leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 6% of all deaths worldwide. Acute exacerbation (AE) of COPD can accelerate the decline of lung function, worsening pulmonary symptoms, and increase the risk of death in patients. Health education, inhaled technical guidance training, individual self-management, psychological counseling, home oxygen therapy, nutritional support, and other comprehensive interventions can help improve the lung function of COPD patients, alleviate clinical symptoms, improve the quality of life. While a number of COPD applications have been developed, few provide comprehensive assessment and guidance for these kinds of patients. Therefore, the investigators aim to establish a bundle care mode based on the mode of "hospital-home-community-patient", clarify the impact of the management on prognosis, and evaluate the effect of mobile medical-assisted bundle management mode. In this randomized controlled trial(RCT), AECOPD patients will be divided into interventional or control groups randomly. Patients in the interventional group will receive mobile medication and standard of care at the same time (bundle care mode). While patients in the control group will receive standard of care only (traditional management mode). This study will be conducted to compare the effects of traditional and bundle care modes, and to formulate the implementation path and specifications of bundle care for AECOPD patients after discharge in China.

Cough is one of the most reported symptoms, especially associated with respiratory diseases. Additionally, cough contains extremely insightful information regarding the patient's health. It is a symptom full of physiopathological information, which can be extremely helpful in clinical practice. However, cough is not currently used as a clinical biomarker given that: Cough is an extremely subjective symptom for patients (patients can't accurately describe and understand their cough's traits). There is currently no tool available to evaluate cough objectively and thoroughly. As such, there is an unmet medical need: solutions for objective cough monitoring and management. C-mo System is a novel non-invasive medical device, which performs an objective monitoring of the patient's cough for long periods of time. The C-mo System consists of a wearable device (C-mo wearable) and a desktop software (C-mo Medical Platform). C-mo System characterises cough automatically through data collection and processing techniques (automatic classification), and its base outputs include: Cough frequency (how many times the patient coughs) Cough intensity (how strong cough's expiratory effort is) Cough type (if the cough is dry, wet, or laryngeal) Identification of patterns (associations between cough characteristics and specific events, namely the time of day, body position, physical exercising, and meals). It is extremely important to validate C-mo System in a wide and diverse population, given the use of signal processing algorithms and artificial intelligence. C-mo System's base outputs will allow healthcare professionals to improve significantly the medical care associated with this symptom, namely: Speed-up and improve the accuracy of the diagnosis of several medical conditions, especially respiratory diseases. C-mo System's ability to objectively monitor cough will allow healthcare professionals to make associations between specific cough patterns and specific medical conditions. Optimize treatment prescription and monitor their effectiveness. C-mo System's objective assessment of cough will allow healthcare professionals to understand if a given therapy is working as intended. Objectively monitor chronic disease progression. C-mo System's monitoring of cough will allow healthcare professionals to objectively assess the progression of the patient's cough.

ADLIFE is a EU-funded project developing innovative digital health solutions to support healthcare planning and care delivery for patients with advanced chronic conditions (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and/or heart disease failure). ADLIFE's technology innovations will be deployed, used and evaluated in seven healthcare environments in Spain, the UK, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Israel. ADLIFE intends to impact three stakeholders: patients, informal caregivers and health professionals, and consequently across the seven participating international healthcare systems. ADLIFE intervention aims at slowing down the patients' functional deterioration, ensuring their quality of life and promoting shared decision making, reducing the caregiver burden, and improving the health professional working conditions; all this under the scenario of an improvement in the healthcare resource use. The research aims to prove whether the ADLIFE intervention can deliver appropriate targeted and timely care for patients with severe long-term diseases when applied in real-life settings. Based on a mixed-method approach, the study will provide scientific evidence based on the effectiveness, socio-economic, implementation and technology acceptance assessment of ADLIFE compared to the standard of care (SoC) to provide scientific evidence supporting the funding decision-making of the ADLIFE intervention.

Background Mental health problems in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are prominent and neglected. Web-based self-help therapies may effectively reduce mental health problems, but their effectiveness has not been evaluated in Chinese COPD patients. We developed an integrated Internet-based psychological intervention (MindWellness). This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of MindWellness in enhancing the mental wellbeing of COPD patients. Methods This study is a multicenter, two-arm, randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a parallel-group design to enroll at least 420 COPD patients over 35 years. Participants will be assigned to receive either usual care group or the usual care + MindWellness group. Assessments will take place at baseline (T0), 4 weeks (T1), 8 weeks (T2), and 16 weeks (T3) after baseline, and participants will be asked to complete questionnaires and take physical measurements. The primary outcome measure will assess mental well-being using the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS). Secondary outcome measures will assess mental health, physical health, COPD symptoms, health risk behaviors, socio-economic indicators, and healthcare utilization and expenditure. Analyses will utilize an intention-to-treat analysis. Discussion This study is the first RCT to examine the value of MindWellness, the internet-based psychological intervention for COPD patients. If this low-cost intervention is effective, it could be rapidly scaled up for providing mental health care of COPD patients in China.