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Filter by:The goal of this retrospective study is to describe the outcomes of spontaneous idiopathic pneumothorax treated by thoracoscopy with pleural abrasion and blebectomy. The main questions it aims to answer are: - are there risk factors leading to pneumothorax recurrence? - are pleural abrasion and blebectomy really diminishing the recurrence of pneumothorax?
The study aims to evaluate the association between spontaneous pneumothorax onset and weather parameters.
The objective of this multi-center, non-randomized, prospective pilot study is to examine the rate of successful primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) resolution using the simple aspiration technique. In this study, eligible subjects diagnosed with PSP at eleven participating large children's hospitals (members of the Midwest Pediatric Surgical Clinical Research Consortium) will be enrolled and offered a choice of management with either the simple aspiration protocol or management according to their surgeon's preference, which may include simple aspiration, chest tube placement, or rarely, an operation.
The use of wire-guided Arndt® endobronchial blocker does not gain widespread acceptance during video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS) because it takes longer time to collapse the operative lung especially in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD). The use of a disconnection technique for deflation of Arndt® blocker had a comparable degree of lung collapse with the use of double-lumen tubes. However, it carries a risk of blood or infected secretions contaminating the dependent lung. We hypothesise that the use bronchial suction of through a barrel part of a 1-mL insulin syringe attached to the suction port of the bronchial blocker would be associated with comparable time to optimum lung collapse with the disconnection technique. After ethical approval, 58 patients with spontaneous pneumothorax scheduled for elective VATS using Arndt blocker® for lung separation will be included in this prospective, randomized, double-blind study. Patients will be randomly assigned to deflate the blocker with either disconnecting the endotracheal tube from the ventilator for 60 s. prior to inflation of the bronchial blocker allowing both lungs to collapse, or attaching -20 cm H2O of suction to the suction port of the blocker through the barrel part of a 1-mL insulin syringe (n = 29 for each group).