The effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) on the collapsed lung during single-lung-ventilation in patients undergoing robot-assisted thoracoscopic esophageal reseection: pulmonary complications, local and systemic cytokine production.
- Conditions
- Esophageal cancer
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON21972
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Department of Surgery
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Inclusion Criteria
1. Patients with resectable carcinoma of the esophagus or junction that will undergo robot-assisted thoracoscopic esophago-lymphadenectomy with gastric conduit formation;
2. ASA classification < 4;
3. Written informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Moderate/severe lung function impairment ascertained by pulmonary function tests, requiring high dose steroid therapy;
2. No epidural catheter.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ocal and systemic cytokine production.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Pulmonary complications;<br>2. Ventilation time;<br>3. ICU stay;<br>4. Hospital stay.