Status:
COMPLETED
Test of Chamber Pressure to Divers and Chamber Attendants
Lead Sponsor:
Intermountain Health Care, Inc.
Conditions:
Traumatic Brain Injury
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
SCUBA divers and chamber inside attendants will undergo a brief hyperbaric chamber excursion and will be asked to what chamber pressure they were compressed and what gas they breathed.
Detailed Description
In clinical trials evaluating hyperbaric oxygen, blinding can be challenging. Options for participant blinding include offering regular air at a lower pressure than the hyperbaric oxygen intervention,...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Adult, age 18 - 65 years
- Completion of medical history questionnaire without concerns identified for exposure to increased pressure
- Familiarity with atmospheric pressure change:
- Experienced and active hyperbaric chamber inside attendant: more than 50 hyperbaric compressions, with more than 4 have been in the last 4 months; or
- Experienced and active SCUBA diver: more than 20 lifetime compressed gas open water (not swimming pool) dives, with more than 10 in the last 12 months
- Able to equalize middle ear pressure easily
Exclusion
- Pregnancy
- Known risk for barotrauma, as identified on the medical history questionnaire, such as:
- Recent (within 12 months) inner ear or sinus surgery
- Spontaneous pneumothorax
- Pulmonary cysts
- Emphysema
- Bullous lung disease
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease needing chronic active therapy
- Inability to tolerate chamber confinement or pressure
- Presence of heart failure
- Presence of any implanted electrical device, except hyperbaric-approved pacemakers
- Presence of middle-ear tympanostomy tubes
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
October 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
42 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01430325
Start Date
July 1 2011
End Date
October 1 2011
Last Update
February 15 2013
Active Locations (2)
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1
Intermountain Medical Center
Murray, Utah, United States, 84107
2
LDS Hospital
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84143