NCT07020299Completed
Effect of Electrical Diaphragmatic Stimulation on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Effect of Trans-cutenuous Electrical Diaphragmatic Stimulation on Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Respiratory muscle dysfunction is a common consequence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This technique consists of placing electrodes on the skin at locations near the motor points of the diaphragm, transmitting an intermittent current, and generating action potentials capable of producing muscle contractions
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 128 (actual)
- First submitted
- 27 May 2025
- Start date
- 1 Aug 2024
- Primary completion date
- 1 Feb 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Mansoura University Hospital
- Diseases
- COPD
- NCT number
- NCT07020299
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 128
- From 1 Aug 2024 to the primary completion date, 1 Feb 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- Patients on maintenance steroid therapy
Other illness
- Lung disease other than COPD
- History of neuromuscular disease at admission
- Depletating disease as malignancy 14. Patients refusing the procedure
Other
- Body mass index (BMI) \> 35 kg/m2
- Post arrest patients
- Brain death
- Hemodynamic instability
- Invasive MV
- Pregnancy , ascitis.
- Spinal injuries
- Skin lesions or an open lesion in the regions where the electrodes would be placed
- Use of pacemakers
Who the study is looking for
- Age \>18 years.
- Known cases of COPD admitted at respiratory critical care unit with severe acute exacerbation (defined according to GOLD 2024).
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Al Mansurah | Egypt | Unknown status |
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