NCT01345383

Impact of Current Smoking in the Tolerance of Bronchoscopy

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saint Pierre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to study the impact of smoking in the preceding hours before a bronchoscopy on the tolerance of this exam.

Detailed description

Tolerance evaluation of the bronchoscopy on current and regular smokers. The investigators assess episodes of cough, dyspnea, volume of lidocain (liquid 1% and in spray 10%), duration of the procedure, episodes of desaturation and completion of the bronchoscopy. The investigators compare patients who did not smoke in the 6 hours before the bronchoscopy and those who have smoked.

Conditions

• Smokers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	bronchoscopy	Routine bronchoscopy under local anesthesia (lidocain). Duration: +/- 10 min

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-06-01
• Primary completion: 2013-08-01
• Completion: 2013-08-01
• First posted: 2011-05-02
• Last updated: 2015-03-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium