Two-staged Approach in Positioning Endobronchial Blockers Without Fiberoptic Guidance

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: One-lung Ventilation

Treatments: Device: single-staged endobronchial blocker insertion; Device: two-staged endobronchial blocker insertion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02981537

JHBahk_blocker

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to find a novel method for placing endobronchial blockers without fiberoptic guidance to provide one-lung isolation during anesthesia for thoracic surgery.

Enrollment: 94 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients scheduled for lung resection

Exclusion criteria

• refuse to enroll
• patients with lesions involving mainstem bronchi
• patients with anomalies in tracheobronchial tree

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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94 participants in 2 patient groups

two-staged

Experimental group

Description:

positioning endobronchial blockers to appropriate bronchus with two-staged methods

Treatment:

Device: two-staged endobronchial blocker insertion

Device: single-staged endobronchial blocker insertion

single-staged

Active Comparator group

Description:

positioning endobronchial blockers with traditional single-staged methods

Treatment:

Device: two-staged endobronchial blocker insertion

Device: single-staged endobronchial blocker insertion