# Positive Expiratory Pressure With Blow-bottle Device Versus EPAP After Postoperative Cardiac Surgery

> **NCT03639974** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre** · enrollment: 163 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Thoracic Surgery

## Interventions

- **OTHER:** PEP in a blow-bottle device
- **OTHER:** EPAP
- **OTHER:** conventional physiotherapy

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT03639974
- **Lead sponsor:** Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2018-08-01
- **Primary completion:** 2019-05-20
- **Final completion:** 2019-08-23
- **Target enrollment:** 163 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2019-12-10

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03639974

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT03639974, "Positive Expiratory Pressure With Blow-bottle Device Versus EPAP After Postoperative Cardiac Surgery". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT03639974. Licensed CC0.

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