NCT06825299

Interprofessional Approach to Ultrasound Diagnosis and Intervention in Critical Care Patients With Pneumothorax and/or Hemothorax

Interprofessional Approach to Ultrasound Diagnosis and Intervention in Critical Care Patients With Pneumothorax and/or Hemothorax (Steering the Eagerness Towards Standardization of the Third Core Competency in ICU)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tanta University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Investigate the efficacy of interprofessional team approach to ultrasound guided diagnosis and intervention (pigtail or chest tube insertion) in critical care patients with Pneumothorax and/or hemothorax. Evaluate the safety of the procedure {Insertion- related complications. Assess the Duration of chest tube insertion

Detailed description

Pneumothorax is defined as the presence of air in the pleural cavity; it can be secondary to underlying pulmonary pathology or trauma. In trauma, about 40-50% of thoracic injuries develop pneumothorax. Traditionally, following the suggestion of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), all traumatic pneumothoraxes must be treated with a pleural drainage that could be chest tube (CT) or pigtail catheter (PC). Insertion of pleural drains is a common surgical procedure. Percutaneous pleural drainage is the third most performed procedure in the intensive care unit (ICU) after vascular catheterization and tracheal intubation. Bedside-ultrasound is introducing the advantage of at-time diagnosis and evaluation of different parameters without the need for risky transport of critical patients outside ICU and also guiding safe and successful intervention without complications and good learning. .

Conditions

• Interprofessional Approach
• Ultrasound
• Intervention
• Critical Care
• Pneumothorax
• Hemothorax

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Chest-Tube Insertion	The technique was performed according to a combination of the Chest-Tube Insertion (BTS) guidelines for chest tube insertion and ultrasound (US)-guided technique for chest tube insertion and US-guided pigtail insertion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-10-01
• Primary completion: 2024-11-01
• Completion: 2024-11-01
• First posted: 2025-02-13
• Last updated: 2025-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt