Active clinical trials for "Pneumothorax"

Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) has become a standard of care in adults, pediatric surgeons have been slower to undertake this approach. There are limitations for working in children. The site of a chest tube becomes the working site for thoracoscopic surgery and the only scar. We propose this study to do a retrospective review comparing the conventional multiport thoracic surgery with the newer single port site.

There are standard well-known guidelines for pneumothorax management with minimal difference between societies and associations. We are investigating how much of these guidelines are actually being followed in different healthcare facilites in Egypt. This is a questionnaire that will be sent to all healthcare givers in Egypt acorss different cities and facilities with multiple choice questions presenting different case scenarios and the management options being given to the patient.

This study aims to examine the safety and efficacy of the Percussion Device in detecting a pneumothorax in patients that have undergone thoracic surgery.

The use of vacuum bottle in drainage of pneumothorax was seldom reported. This study aims to investigate the safety of vacuum bottle plus non-tunneled catheter for drainage of iatrogenic pneumothorax.

Anesthesia-induced atelectasis is a well-known entity observed in approximately 68-100% of pediatric patients undergoing general anesthesia. The collapse of dependent lung zones starts with anesthesia induction but can persist for hours or even days after surgery. Lung collapse is a pressure-dependent phenomenon. Each acinus has a critical closing pressure, i.e., the minimum transpulmonary pressure (Ptp) below that the acinus begins to collapse. While airway pressure is homogeneously distributed within all lung units, Pleural pressure increases along the vertical gravitational vector because of the lung's weight. As a consequence, the decreased Ptp in the dependent zones promotes collapse. This means that patients in the supine position suffer from increasing closing pressures in the ventral to dorsal direction. Alveolar recruitment maneuvers recruit collapsed alveoli, increase gas exchange, and improve arterial oxygenation. The investigators hypothesized that in children with anesthesia-induced atelectasis, postural changes have recruiting effects and improve lung aeration assessed by lung ultrasound.

Investigators compared the patients' subjective postoperative symptoms and complications between the double lumen endotracheal intubated patients under general anesthesia and non-intubated patients under sedation and local anesthesia including postoperative Visual scale of pain postoperative sore throat/voice change postoperative nausea/vomiting intraoperative Arterial blood gas analysis cost for anesthesia morbidity

The purpose of this study is to compare two methods that are currently used at the end of a CT guided lung biopsy to close the hole on the surface of the lung in order to minimize the chance of air leaking out of the hole. The two techniques consist of either injecting a very small amount of your the blood called a blood patch into the biopsy hole or injecting a gel-based FDA approved artificial plug called BioSentry that will eventually get absorbed into the body.

Often the decision for chest tube removal or trial of chest tube clamping is based on subjective assessment. This can lead to delay in chest tube removal. Recently, monitoring and recording of air leaks has been done using digital pleural drainage devices. This provides us with objective and continuous recording of air leaks as well as changes in pleural pressure. Our hypothesis is that the use of the ATMOS digital pleural drainage system will result in shorter hospital stay in comparison to traditional pleural drainage systems.

Management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) remains unclear. Primary therapeutic goals for PSP include removal of air from the pleural space an prevention of recurrences. The absence of generally accepted and methodologically sound recommendations may account for the extensive variation in practice for air evacuation techniques. Air evacuation may be achieved by simple aspiration (exsufflation) or conventional chest tube drainage. Chest tube thoracotomy remains the most popular technique.Aspiration is a more simple technique, that allows possibility of ambulatory management. The purpose of the present study is to compare simple aspiration performed with a specific thoracentesis device, versus conventional chest tube drainage. Comparison will be performed on immediate efficacity of resolution of the pneumothorax.The hypothesis is that simple aspiration performed with a specific device is not inferior to chest tube drainage for management of a first episode of large size primary spontaneous pneumothorax. A second goal is to measure the efficacy at one week, and the recidive at one year. The trial is randomized, controlled and will include 200 patients for each group. The patients will be enrolled in 29 hospitals in France. Emergency department, thoracic surgery and pulmonary departments of each hospital were primarily contacted for agreement to participate to the study.

Assessment and evaluation of Pigtail application in drainage of pneumothorax and haemothorax.