NCT01778270

Not Invasive Monitoring of Pleural Drainage

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: RWTH Aachen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study investigates if data about monitoring the drainage of pleural effusion can be collected by non invasive sensors (feasibility).

Detailed description

25 patients \> 18 years old with pleura effusion will be examined with regard to the feasibility of non invasive sensor measurements corresponding to the course of thorax impedance and respiration parameters during body fluids loss before and after pleural drainage. The measured data will be compared to standard routine reference measurements (heart rate, medication, brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), heart minute volume). Additionally heart sound analysis via electronic stethoscope will be compared to standard methods. Also 25 healthy controls will undergo the same measurements to receive standard values.

Conditions

• Pleural Effusion

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Body Bioimpedance Sensor

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2013-01-29
• Last updated: 2015-04-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany