The Role of Lung Ultrasound During Perioperative Evaluation

University of Pisa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Diseases

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Lung ultrasonography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03111641

UPisa2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

Accurate pre-operative lung assessment is important to decide the most appropriate anesthesia plan. Until now, chest X-ray is considered the standard of care for lung assessment during perioperative evaluation. However, lung ultrasound is a rapid, simple, non-invasive, radiation-free imaging modality and can be used as an alternative to chest radiography for the diagnosis and follow-up of various lung diseases. Moreover, the decreased radiation exposure represents a considerable improvement in patient safety. Consequently, we decided to compare the data obtained from the lung ultrasound and the chest X-ray.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients undergoing elective general surgery;
• age >18 years;
• ability to provide written consent;
• use of Chest radiography during the preoperative evaluation.

Exclusion criteria

• age < than 18 year;
• pregnant patients;
• not use of Chest radiography during the preoperative evaluation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 1 patient group

Lung ultrasonography

Experimental group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Lung ultrasonography