Prospective Evaluation of Needle Exsufflation for Pneumothorax

Hôpital Louis Mourier

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pneumothorax

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02528734

HLM_JDR5

Details and patient eligibility

About

Monocentric observational study of needle exsufflation for pneumothorax in the ICU.

Full description

The main objective of this prospective observational non interventional study is to investigate a possible relationship between prior duration of pneumothorax (defined as the duration from first occurence of chest pain reported by patient to exsufflation) and the success of exsufflation procedure (defined by the absence of a chest tube insertion in the following 24h).

Enrollment: 71 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult ICU patients requiring needle exsufflation for spontaneous pneumothorax

Exclusion criteria

• refuse to participate
• contraindications to needle exsufflation (acute respiratory failure requiring immediate chest tube insertion)