Using Ultrasound to Predict the Results of Draining Pleural Effusions

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · Oct 25, 2013

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ClinConnect Summary

Study-specific interventions will be the monitoring of intrapleural pressure using an electronic pleural manometer (Mirador Biomedical CompassTM Thoracentesis Assist Device) and thoracic ultrasonography. Both of these are considered non-invasive and low-risk to the study participants.

As part of their standard usual clinical care, participants will undergo a diagnostic and/or therapeutic pleural intervention in the form of thoracocentesis or pleural aspiration; intercostal chest drain insertion; and/or talc pleurodesis. All of these procedures are invasive and associated with potential com...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • The participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study.
• • Adult male or female, aged 18 years or above.
• • Diagnosed with a symptomatic pleural effusion requiring either diagnostic and/or therapeutic pleural aspiration or drainage.
• • Expectation by the clinician responsible for assessing the patient that more than 500mL of pleural fluid will be drained on this particular occasion.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Age less than 18 years
• • Inability to provide informed consent
• • Evidence of significant septation or loculation within the pleural effusion as determined by the clinician responsible for assessing the patient.