Eligibility Module

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


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NCT ID: NCT02376218
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria: * Patients aged 18 years or older at the time of surgery * Having undergone a simple lung lobectomy for malignancy, primary or metastatic * Procedure performed through thoracotomy, sternotomy or video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), and associated or not to mediastinoscopy, staging thoracoscopy, mediastinal lymph nodes sampling or mediastinal lymph nodes dissection * Normally recovery after a surgery performed between 12 and 24 hours earlier Exclusion Criteria: * High amount of liquid drainage from chest tube (\>500 cc in the last 8 hours) * Minimal air leak (\<20 cc/min in one of the last 4 hours) * Large air leak (\>500 cc/min in one of the last 4 hours) * History of previous ipsilateral thoracotomy, lung resection, rib fracture, chest trauma, or lung/thoracic infection * Diabetes or hyperglycemia * Immunity disorders * Allergy to local anaesthetics * Hemodynamic instability * Need for respiratory support * Inability to give informed consent
Healthy Volunteers: False
Sex: ALL
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Study: NCT02376218
Study Brief:
Protocol Section: NCT02376218