Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:43 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:43 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00373633
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Unilateral thoracotomy
* Video Assisted thoracotomy with high likely hood of converting to open thoracotmoy
Exclusion Criteria:
* Bilateral thoracotomy
* Planned bilateral thoracotomy
* Planned chest wall resection
* Planned combined thoracotomy and laparotomy procedure
* VATS procedure without conversion to unilateral thoracotomy
* Emergency operation
* Critically ill patients
* Patients who require an assistive device (i.e. cane, walker, or wheel chair) for mobility
* Patients who are unable to give informed consent
* Patients with preoperative chronic back or chest wall pain
* Empyema or other infective condition increasing the risk of epidural infection
* Coagulopathy
* Decision of the surgeon or anesthesiologist, or choice of the patient
* Infection at site of epidural placement
* Patients with other co morbidities which exclude thoracic epidural placement
* Patients under the age of 18 years
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT00373633
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00373633