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:
2025-12-24 @ 10:41 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 10:41 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00556335
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* patients with a first episode of a symptomatic pneumothorax admitted to the ER of the hospital (spontaneous or traumatic) or
* patients with an asymptomatic pneumothorax with a size of ≥ 20 % as estimated by Light's formula
* age ≥ 18 and \< 85 years
* smoking is tolerated
Exclusion Criteria:
* recurrent pneumothorax
* lung fibrosis
* patients with (lung) cancer
* pregnant women
* comorbidity limiting decision making (psychiatric disease, alcohol or drug abuse)
* prior randomisation
* Marfan syndrome
* COPD patients
* tension pneumothorax
* multitrauma patients
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
85 Years
Study:
NCT00556335
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00556335