Cerebral Oximetry in Single Lung Ventilation Thoracic Surgery
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2014-12-01
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Summary
This is a prospective, randomized controlled pilot study of cerebral oximetry use in elderly
patients undergoing thoracic surgical procedures that require the use of single lung
ventilation. The hypothesis is that subjects randomized to open cerebral oximetry monitoring
that have active intervention to mitigate observed desaturations will have measurable
postoperative clinical outcome benefits when compared to the patients randomized to blinded
cerebral oximetry monitoring with no active interventions to mitigate desaturations.