Clinical trials: Vital Capacity

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Stacking Exercises Aid the Decline in FVC and Sick Time

• Completed
• Age: 6 to 16 years
• Phase 4
• Medical device
• Results posted

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is complicated by weak breathing muscles and lung infections. "Lung volume recruitment" is a technique performed using a face mask or mouthpiece and a hand-held resuscitation bag to stack breaths…

Trial name

STEADFAST (NCT01999075)

Testing

Lung Volume Recruitment (LVR), Conventional Treatment

Where

9 sites in Canada

Volunteers

70 people

Sponsor

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario