Examination of Double-Lumen Tube Placement by Functional Electrical Impedance Tomography

University Hospital Freiburg

Status: Completed

Conditions: One-Lung Ventilation; Double-Lumen Tube Placement

Treatments: Device: electrical impedance tomography; Procedure: double-lumen tube placement

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00486616

117/07

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether functional electrical impedance tomography is suitable for examination of double-lumen tube placement compared with fibreoptic evaluation.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• consent of the patient
• intubation with left- or right-sided double-lumen tube
• age >= 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• refusal by the patient
• contraindications for EIT-measurement (e.g. pacemaker, pregnancy)