NCT02355405

Diagnostic Values of Lung Ultrasound for Perioperative Atelectasis

Diagnostic Performance of Lung Ultrasound for Perioperative Atelectasis in Adult Patients Undergoing General Anesthesia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 46 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Lung ultrasound offers a novel, reliable and radiation-free tool for diagnosing perioperative atelectasis and evaluating its severity in adult patients undergoing general anesthesia in the operating room.

Detailed description

Atelectases occur in up to 90% of patients undergoing general anesthesia and intubation. The aim of the present observational study was designed to further to evaluate the diagnostic performance of lung ultrasound (LUS) in detection of postoperative atelectasis in adult patients undergoing general anesthesia. Results of LUS as the experimental method will be compared to the results of computed tomography (CT) as the reference technique for the detection of atelectasis. The investigators want to confirm former findings of the appearance of perioperative atelectases and to prove that ultrasound is a valid tool for detection of atelectases.

Conditions

• Postoperative Pulmonary Atelectasis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	lung ultrasound	lung ultrasound investigations were performed right before and after the surgical procedure.
RADIATION	thoracic computed tomography	thoracic CT were performed within one hour after the LUS investigation

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2015-02-04
• Last updated: 2015-04-21

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: China