Status:
UNKNOWN
Surgical Site Preparation in Subjects Undergoing Medical Thoracoscopy
Lead Sponsor:
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
Conditions:
Medical Thoracoscopy
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-80 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Medical thoracoscopy is the preferred procedure for performing pleural biopsy in patients with pleural effusions that remain undiagnosed after pleural fluid analysis. Surgical site infections (SSI) an...
Detailed Description
Medical thoracoscopy is the preferred procedure for performing pleural biopsy in patients with pleural effusions that remain undiagnosed after pleural fluid analysis. Unlike video-assisted thoracoscop...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age ≥12 \<80 years
- Medical thoracoscopy being performed for the workup of undiagnosed pleural effusion
Exclusion
- Patients with intercostal tube before MT
- MT performed for adhesiolysis
- Age \<12 or ≥80 years
- SPO2 \<92% at room air
- Hemodynamic instability
- Myocardial infarction or unstable angina in the last 3 months
- Hemoglobin \<8g/dl; Platelet count \<50,000 cell/dl
- Lack of pleural space due to adhesions
- Uncorrected coagulopathy (PT \> 3 seconds above control; APTT\> 10 seconds above control)
- Failure to provide informed consent
- Patients already taking any antibiotic due to any reason
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 18 2022
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
April 30 2023
Estimated Enrollment :
100 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05430308
Start Date
April 18 2022
End Date
April 30 2023
Last Update
September 28 2022
Active Locations (2)
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1
Bronchoscopy suite, PGIMER
Chandigarh, India, 160012
2
Bronchoscopy suite
Chandigarh, India, 160012