20
Participants
Start Date
October 16, 2012
Primary Completion Date
December 1, 2014
Study Completion Date
December 1, 2014
RHC and IMT
"Eligible patients subjected to RHC will be instructed on how to do RMT using the Threshold IMT® two days in advance. RMT will be conducted with 20-30% of individual inspiratory muscle strength, which will be measured beforehand. A single training session consists of 7 cycles with 2 min inspiratory training each, followed by a 1 min break (total duration 21 min).~The actual intervention consists of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) during right-heart catheterization for at least 2 min or as long as is necessary to measure all specified parameters."
Bethanien Hospital, Clinic for Pneumology and Allergology, Center for Sleep and Respiratory Medicine, Solingen
Wissenschaftliches Institut Bethanien e.V
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