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Effects of Lung Volume on Upper Airway Patency During Drug Induced Sleep Endoscopy

Characterizing the Effects of Lung Volume on Upper Airway Patency During Drug Induced Sleep Endoscopy in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

About This Trial

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disorder where a person has recurrent choking episodes during sleep. Surgery can treat OSA and drug induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) is a procedure that surgeons use to evaluate the throat while a person is sedated, mimicking sleep, to help determine if surgery might be effective. Lung volume can influence OSA severity but the relationship between lung function and throat collapse seen on DISE has not been well studied. This study aims to see if lung volume influences what is happening in the throat during DISE. Participants will be recruited from the sleep surgery clinic where they are being evaluated for surgery to treat their OSA. Participants will have a DISE that is performed as part of their routine surgical workup for treatment of OSA. Additionally, during the DISE, they will participate in one of two study groups. One group will have a negative pressure "turtle shell" ventilator placed over the participants chest during DISE to manipulate lung volumes to see if it can improve throat collapse. A second group will have electrodes placed over the neck to stimulate the phrenic nerve to contract the diaphragm to improve lung volumes to see if it can improve throat collapse. Both groups will also have a lung function test performed.The findings of this study will be important in improving pre-surgical evaluation of patients to better predict if surgery can help as well as potentially develop new surgical therapies for the treatment of OSA.

Who May Be Eligible (Plain English)

Who May Qualify: - Adult patients (≥ 18 yrs) willing and capable of providing willing to sign a consent form - Obstructive sleep apnea (AHI ≥ 5 events/hour) - Must be willing and able to provide willing to sign a consent form to participate in the study. - Interested in surgical treatments of OSA and have consented for a DISE procedure as part of their routine clinical evaluation. - Patients are evaluated and cleared by anesthesia prior to the procedure. Who Should NOT Join This Trial: - No significant uncontrolled medical co-morbidities (e.g., uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina, uncompensated heart failure or COPD). - Any medical comorbidity that would prevent the patient from receiving anesthesia or having surgery - Inability to tolerate negative pressure ventilator or perform PFT (i.e. claustrophobia) - No incapacitating disability that interferes with execution of the protocol Always talk to your doctor about whether this trial is right for you.

Original Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients (≥ 18 yrs) willing and capable of providing informed consent * Obstructive sleep apnea (AHI ≥ 5 events/hour) * Must be willing and able to provide informed consent to participate in the study. * Interested in surgical treatments of OSA and have consented for a DISE procedure as part of their routine clinical evaluation. * Patients are evaluated and cleared by anesthesia prior to the procedure. Exclusion Criteria: * No significant uncontrolled medical co-morbidities (e.g., uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina, uncompensated heart failure or COPD). * Any medical comorbidity that would prevent the patient from receiving anesthesia or having surgery * Inability to tolerate negative pressure ventilator or perform PFT (i.e. claustrophobia) * No incapacitating disability that interferes with execution of the protocol

Treatments Being Tested

DEVICE

Negative Pressure Ventilator

The negative pressure ventilator is an off-the-shelf FDA-approved device designed to treat respiratory patients with hypoventilation syndromes. This ventilator places the torso within a fixed container that is connected to a vacuum source, which inflates the lungs by pulling a negative pressure around the chest and abdomen. After the clinically routine DISE, a negative pressure ventilator will be placed on the participant's chest to increase lung volumes and the DISE evaluation will be repeated to observe changes.

DEVICE

Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT)

PFT is a routine standardized clinical test evaluating lung function, consisting of two parts: spirometry and body plethysmography. In spirometry, participants breathe through a mouthpiece that measures airflow and volume to determine normal and maximal volume of inspiration/expiration. Body plethysmography is performed to calculate residual lung volumes. Participants enter in an enclosed chamber where they breathe through a mouthpiece. Changes in pressure in the sealed chamber during breathing are used to calculate the volume of air that remains in the lung after expiration. A MiniBox+ device may be used. The MiniBox+ device derives total lung capacity (TLC) during tidal breathing by the analysis of gas pressures and airflows immediately preceding and immediately following airway occlusions to calculate the same measures as conventional PFT analysis.

DEVICE

Transcutaneous Phrenic Nerve Stimulation

Phrenic nerve stimulation (PNS) will be performed transcutaneously using a commercially available and FDA approved peripheral neurostimulator. (Digitimer DS8R Bipolar Constant Current Stimulator). The neurostimulator consists of a stimulation generating box connected to electrodes that will be placed over the skin of the neck bilaterally over both phrenic nerves where an bipolar electric current will be used to stimulate the phrenic nerve leading to diaphragm contraction.

Locations (1)

Emory University Hospital Midtown

Atlanta, Georgia, United States