CompletedNot Applicable

Surgical Site Preparation in Subjects Undergoing Medical Thoracoscopy

India100 participantsStarted 2022-04-18

Plain-language summary

Medical thoracoscopy is the preferred procedure for performing pleural biopsy in patients with pleural effusions that remain undiagnosed after pleural fluid analysis. Surgical site infections (SSI) and empyema are among the important complications of the procedure. At author's center, povidone-iodine is used for surgical site preparation during MT. The investigators hypothesized that chlorhexidine-alcohol would be superior to povidone-iodine in reducing the rate of infectious complications following thoracoscopy. In this study, the authors propose to investigate the efficacy of chlorhexidine-alcohol scrub in preventing post procedural infectious complications in subjects undergoing medical thoracoscopy

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 80 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion criteria

✓. Age ≥12 \<80 years
✓. Medical thoracoscopy being performed for the workup of undiagnosed pleural effusion

Exclusion criteria

✕. Patients with intercostal tube before MT
✕. MT performed for adhesiolysis
✕. Age \<12 or ≥80 years
✕. SPO2 \<92% at room air
✕. Hemodynamic instability
✕. Myocardial infarction or unstable angina in the last 3 months
✕. Hemoglobin \<8g/dl; Platelet count \<50,000 cell/dl
✕. Lack of pleural space due to adhesions

What they're measuring

Occurrence of infection

Timeframe: 30 days

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05430308

SponsorPost Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2025-08-31

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