# Acute Effect of Positive Expiratory Pressure Versus Breath Stacking Technique After Cardiac Surgery

> **NCT04013360** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Universidade Federal de Santa Maria** · enrollment: 24 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Complication, Postoperative
- Cardiac Complication

## Interventions

- **OTHER:** Breath Stacking
- **OTHER:** Expiratory Positive Airway Pressure

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT04013360
- **Lead sponsor:** Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2019-08-01
- **Primary completion:** 2019-12-30
- **Final completion:** 2020-02-04
- **Target enrollment:** 24 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2020-04-09


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04013360

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT04013360, "Acute Effect of Positive Expiratory Pressure Versus Breath Stacking Technique After Cardiac Surgery". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-08 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT04013360. Licensed CC0.

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