Thoracic Computed Tomography Scan for Diagnosis of Aspirated Foreign Bodies. (SICE)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aspirated Foreign Body of Lower Respiratory Tract

Treatments: Procedure: Thoracic CT Scan

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00747981

K 070601

Details and patient eligibility

About

To access CT Scan as a diagnostic tool for foreign bodies aspiration.

Full description

Comparison with gold standard diagnostic tool, the endoscopy

Enrollment: 311 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 months to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age between 6 months and 16 years
• suspicion of a foreign body aspiration
• health care assurance
• information of parents

Exclusion criteria

• emergency situation
• certainly of foreign body presence
• delay for CT Scan realization longer than 24 hours
• no speaking French parents
• parents refusal.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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311 participants in 1 patient group

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Experimental group

Description:

Thoracic CT Scan

Treatment:

Procedure: Thoracic CT Scan