QuantiPEITpeds- Quantification of pleural effusions by electrical impedance tomography in children before or after cardiosurgical procedures.

Conditions: J90
Pleural effusion, not elsewhere classified

Registration Number: DRKS00033368

Lead Sponsor: Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Operative Intensivmedizin, Uniklinikum Köln

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting withdrawn before recruiting started

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Children =3.5kG = 10kg
• Admission to the pediatric Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit
• Evidence of pleural effusion (unilateral / bilateral)
• No contraindications for applying the EIT belt
• Patients receive EIT monitoring to monitor their ventilation (monitoring
of ventilator weaning or monitoring noninvasive ventilation)

Exclusion Criteria

• No pleural effusion detectable
• Immobilization (e.g. unstable spinal trauma / ribs /
Sternal fractures, pelvic fractures, etc.) which make the use of a belt for
EIT monitoring unfeasible
• Patients with a pacemaker, cardioverter (ICD) or others electrical
pacemakers, which are powered by the alternating current of the EIT
measurement could be impaired in its function.
• Patients with skin lesions in the area where the EIT belt is located.
• Pleural effusion that cannot be punctured

Study & Design

Study Type: observational

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- Quantification of pleural effusion via ultrasound <br>- Quantitatively recorded amount of pleural effusion after drainage <br> (surgical drainage or via puncture)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- Detection of a residual” pleural effusion despite drainage<br>- Quantitatively recorded amount of pleural effusion after drainage<br> (surgical drainage or via puncture) via ultrasound