Child
Conditions
Interventions
Control group (traditional treatment): 10 participants will undergo the conventional treatment of the proposing institution, which is to perform a thoracostomy and closed chest drainage followed by ad
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Sponsors
Hospital Infantil Joana de Gusmão
Hospital Infantil Joana de Gusmão
Eligibility
Age
No minimum to 15 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children with parapneumonic empyema and chest ultrasound with signs of high-grade empyema (gross septations, pleural thickening, pleural fluid hyperechogenicity) were admitted to the intensive care unit before treatment.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: . Participants with contraindications to performing any procedure; . Participants with hydropneumothorax in the pleural space, these findings that indicate video surgery as the treatment of choice; . Medical record not filled out or incompletely filled out; and . Unavailability of material for video surgery or fibrinolysis.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| expected outcome 1 : Difference in hospital length of stay measured in days;expected outcome 2: Difference in fever time, skin temperature above 37.8 degrees, measured in days;expected outcome 3: Decrease in mechanical ventilation time measured in days after the intervention | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Difference of 10% in the absolute value of C-reactive protein collected on the third day after the intervention. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactFelippe Soares
Outcome results
None listed