Day care medical thoracoscopy
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: J90- Pleural effusion, not elsewhere classified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/11/029316
- Lead Sponsor
- CMC HOSPITA
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1.Age >18 years old
2.Patients with undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion
Exclusion Criteria
1.Patient not willing to consent
2.USG screening showing multiseptated pleural effusion covering >50% of volume of pleural effusion on USG
3.Patient unable to lie down in lateral decubitus position
4.Disoriented/Un co-operative patient
5.Hemodynamically unstable patient
6.Un correctable coagulopathy
7.ECOG > 2
8.Pregnant women
9.Significant co-morbidities- large pericardial effusion, decompensated CLD, Recent MI ( < 8 weeks),CKD
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary objective- <br/ ><br>1.To find out the proportion of patients undergoing LAT who can be discharged within 24 hours using multi- modality strategies <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 24 hours <br/ ><br>proportion of patients who can be discharged post procedure within 24 hours of day of admission <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Diagnostic yield of onsite imprint cytology on pleural biopsy samples <br/ ><br>2.To find the incidence of complications associated with day care LAT <br/ ><br>3.To calculate average duration of thoracoscopic procedure applying imprint cytology diagnostics <br/ ><br>4.To compare the Thoracoscopistâ??s impression of diagnosis based on visual appearance with the final HP diagnosis <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 24 hours to day of discharge