Impact of Current Smoking in the Tolerance of Bronchoscopy

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saint Pierre

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Smokers

Treatments: Procedure: bronchoscopy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01345383

AK/10-05-3898/38

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to study the impact of smoking in the preceding hours before a bronchoscopy on the tolerance of this exam.

Full description

Tolerance evaluation of the bronchoscopy on current and regular smokers. The investigators assess episodes of cough, dyspnea, volume of lidocain (liquid 1% and in spray 10%), duration of the procedure, episodes of desaturation and completion of the bronchoscopy.

The investigators compare patients who did not smoke in the 6 hours before the bronchoscopy and those who have smoked.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• current and regular smoker
• bronchoscopy under local anesthesia

Exclusion criteria

• patients needing EBUS or fluoroscopy
• intravenous sedative

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Current smokers

Treatment:

Procedure: bronchoscopy