Electric Impedance Tomography Before and After Dilatative Tracheotomy

Stefan Kluge

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tracheotomy Required; ICU Patients

Treatments: Other: EIT belt

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02161328

EIT2014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The changes of local pulmonary ventilation should be registered with an electric impedance tomography (EIT) before and after a dilatative tracheotomy. The hypothesis is that the EIT cannot show changes in local ventilation due to the tracheotomy.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• treatment on ICU
• indication for tracheotomy
• age between 18 and 85 years
• written to consent

Exclusion criteria

• severe chronic pulmonary disease
• cardio pulmonary unstable situation

Trial design

29 participants in 1 patient group

ICU patients undergoing a dilatative tracheotomy.

Treatment:

Other: EIT belt