View clinical trials related to Thoracic Surgery.
Filter by:This projects aim is to study the effects of substitute conventional chest x-ray with lung ultrasound for patients undergoing thoracic surgery. Participants in the study will be randomized to either ultrasound or routine chest x-ray as the primary method of diagnosis after having received surgery to their lungs.
The primary aim of this randomized control trial is to analyze by direct comparison the ZEPHYRx Respiratory Therapy (RT) system and the FDA approved standard of care (SOC) incentive spirometer (IS), used for FDA approved indications at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). This comparison will determine subject preferences in terms of usability and simplicity of each, as well as subject engagement and adherence to the prescribed respiratory therapy routine. Additionally, the study will analyze the effectiveness of the gamified spirometry with regards to spirometry volumes, frequency of usage, and pulmonary complications 30 days post discharge.
Permissive hypercapnia increased the survival rate in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who required mechanical ventilation in critical care medicine. This has been explained by its association with ventilator induced lung injury. Since then, a protective lung ventilation strategy has been very important, with a low tidal volume of 4-6 ml/kg. Patients undergoing surgery will inevitably require mechanical ventilation. In particular, patients undergoing one lung ventilation for thoracic surgery may have increased airway pressure and a greater chance of ventilator induced lung injury. Recently, protective lung ventilation has been applied to patients undergoing one ung ventilation during thoracic surgery. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the difference in the degree of pulmonary oxygenation and the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications in hypercapnia induced by controlling the respiratory rate with a constant tidal volume.
The project will apply the methods of clinical observation experiment, (1) to collect the cognitive function data preoperatively and early postoperatively, as well as the pain score data at multiple time points pre- and postoperatively, and to observe the role of the degree of recovery of early postoperative cognitive function on acute pain and chronic pain after surgery. (2) to collect the resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) preoperatively, and to assess the role of EEG index system on the prediction of the degree of recovery of early postoperative cognitive function as well as the acute pain and chronic pain after surgery.