Interprofessional Approach to Ultrasound Diagnosis and Intervention in Critical Care Patients With Pneumothorax and/or Hemothorax (Steering the Eagerness Towards Standardization of the Third Core Competency in ICU)
Interprofessional Approach to Ultrasound Diagnosis and Intervention in Critical Care Patients With Pneumothorax and/or Hemothorax (Steering the Eagerness Towards Standardization of the Third Core Competency in ICU)
Investigate the efficacy of interprofessional team approach to ultrasound guided diagnosis and intervention (pigtail or chest tube insertion) in critical care patients with Pneumothorax and/or hemothorax.
Evaluate the safety of the procedure {Insertion- related complications. Assess the Duration of chest tube insertion
Pneumothorax is defined as the presence of air in the pleural cavity; it can be secondary to underlying pulmonary pathology or trauma. In trauma, about 40-50% of thoracic injuries develop pneumothorax. Traditionally, following the suggestion of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), all traumatic pneumothoraxes must be treated with a pleural drainage that could be chest tube (CT) or pigtail catheter (PC).
Insertion of pleural drains is a common surgical procedure. Percutaneous pleural drainage is the third most performed procedure in the intensive care unit (ICU) after vascular catheterization and tracheal intubation.
Bedside-ultrasound is introducing the advantage of at-time diagnosis and evaluation of different parameters without the need for risky transport of critical patients outside ICU and also guiding safe and successful intervention without complications and good learning.
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