The investigators evaluate the usefulness of lung ultrasonography in the perioperative period for postoperative outcomes in children undergoing fast track cardiac surgery.
Some appropriate intervention such as recruitment maneuver, chest tube insertion, or diuretics will be applied depending on lung ultrasound findings.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
35
Appropriate treatment for atelectasis, pleural effusion, pulmonary edema, pneumothorax or pneumonia which are confirmed by lung ultrasonography
Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
RECRUITINGPostoperative pulmonary complications
Pleural effusion, atelectasis, diaphragmatic dysfunction, pulmonary infection, embolism, respiratory failure, aspiration, pneumothorax, chylothorax, bronchospasm
Time frame: Up to postoperative day 5
Duration of the use of inotropes
Duration of the use of inotropes
Time frame: Up to postoperative day 5
Length of intensive care unit stay
Length of intensive care unit stay
Time frame: up to postoperative day 5
Lung ultrasonography findings
Diagnostic lung ultrasonography
Time frame: until 4 hours after surgery
ABGA result
arterial blood gas analysis results
Time frame: within 4 hours after extubation
Duration of oxygen therapy
Time frame: Up to postoperative day 5
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