Non-invasive Tidal Volume Monitoring Using the Linshom Respiratory Monitoring Device

July 3, 2018 updated by: Madhankumar Sathyamoorthy, University of Mississippi Medical Center

Many post-operative complications arise from patients who breathe inadequately. Inadequate respiration, whether the result of surgery or the anesthesia, causes a decrease in blood oxygen saturation and an increase in carbon dioxide partial pressure. Both of these surrogate measurements of respiration may pose a challenge to measure. Some administer exogenous oxygen to all patients as they leave the operating room in order to maintain the blood oxygen saturation. This renders the oximeter a less sensitive metric of depressed respiration. In the face of decreased respiration, the carbon dioxide levels continue to increase slowly and often go undetected unless blood gases are measured. Indeed carbon dioxide blood levels are the only metric to detect inadequate ventilation using this surrogate index.

Monitoring ventilation is a serious challenge outside of critical care settings. In fact, there are no monitors available that can measure tidal volume or relative tidal volume outside of these settings.

Linshom is a novel instrument that tracks relative respiration by measuring the excursions of the temperature swings between inspiration and expiration and normalizing them to the patient's breathing. This monitor may be the first non-invasive monitor to measure relative tidal volume in non-critical care settings.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a non-invasive, temperature-based respiratory instrument can track tidal volume (Vt) in patients.

The investigators hypothesize that the Linshom device can accurately and consistently track tidal volume as measured by closed loop mechanical ventilator.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Forty volunteers will be enrolled in this open label, prospective study to determine the correlation between the tidal volumes measured with the Linshom detector and those measured with the mechanical ventilator. after Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval and written informed consent from the volunteers.

The Linshom detector, which is comprised of two rapid responding medical-grade thermistors in close proximity to the mouth/nose (sensor) and a thermistor remote to the airway, will be mounted in the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) face mask to measure the temperature during breathing. The CPAP will be connected to a Servo-I ventilator (Maquet) with a circuit and disposable filter. The volunteers will be instructed to breathe normal through the CPAP mask on room air. The excursions of the thermistor tracings (from valley to peak) will be recorded by the Linshom device and displayed continuously on a laptop monitor in a waveform. The tidal volume will also be measured by the ventilator and the data downloaded in a Compact Flash card. The temperature profiles from the sensors and the relative tidal volume will be correlated with the tidal volumes measured by the ventilator.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

40

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

    • Mississippi
      • Jackson, Mississippi, United States, 39216
        • University of Mississippi Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • healthy

Exclusion Criteria:

  • pregnant
  • suffer from claustrophobia
  • had recent respiratory illness
  • had recent gastrointestinal illness
  • unable to provide informed consent

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Linshom Respiratory Monitoring Device
Volunteers will breathe through a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) face mask fitted with the Linshom device. The volunteers will be instructed to breathe normal through the CPAP mask on room air. The excursions of the thermistor tracings (from valley to peak) will be recorded by the Linshom device and displayed continuously on a laptop monitor in a waveform.
Volunteers will breathe through a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) face mask fitted wth the Linshom device. The volunteers will be instructed to breathe normal through the CPAP mask on room air. The excursions of the thermistor tracings (from valley to peak) will be recorded by the Linshom device and displayed continuously on a laptop monitor in a waveform. The tidal volume will also be measured by the ventilator and the data downloaded in a Compact Flash card.
Active Comparator: Ventilator
Volunteers will breathe through a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) face mask fitted with the Linshom device. The volunteers will be instructed to breathe normal through the CPAP mask on room air.The tidal volume will also be measured by the ventilator and the data downloaded in a Compact Flash card.
Volunteers will breathe through a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) face mask fitted wth the Linshom device. The volunteers will be instructed to breathe normal through the CPAP mask on room air. The excursions of the thermistor tracings (from valley to peak) will be recorded by the Linshom device and displayed continuously on a laptop monitor in a waveform. The tidal volume will also be measured by the ventilator and the data downloaded in a Compact Flash card.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Tidal Volume of Each Breath Was Measured Using the Same Breathing Mask CPAP Apparatus Combined With Respiratory Monitoring Device Allowing for Simultaneous Recording.
Time Frame: 5 minutes
Tidal volume measured by CPAP mask with Lishom respiratory monitoring device. Tidal volume determined from the ventilator will be compared to tidal volume measured by Linshom (calculated indirectly by temperature changes by computer algorithm)
5 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Madhankumar Sathyamoorthy, MBBS, MS, Children's of Mississippi/University of Mississippi Medical Center

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

September 8, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 8, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

September 8, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 6, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 8, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

September 12, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

July 5, 2018

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 3, 2018

Last Verified

July 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2017-0063

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

No plan to share IPD

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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