age <18 years;
Pregnancy
inability to give informed written consent;
previous thoracic surgery or thrombolytic therapy for pleural infection;
medical thoracoscopy cannot be performed within 48 hours;
inability to tolerate procedure due to hemodynamic instability or severe hypoxemia;
inability to correct coagulopathy;
presence of a homogeneously echogenic effusion on pleural US27 -

NCT03213834_exc_T1
Person
age
NCT03213834_exc_T2
Value
<18 years
NCT03213834_exc_T3
Condition
Pregnancy
NCT03213834_exc_T5
Procedure
thoracic surgery
NCT03213834_exc_T6
Procedure
thrombolytic therapy
NCT03213834_exc_T7
Condition
pleural infection
NCT03213834_exc_T8
Scope
thoracic surgery or thrombolytic therapy
NCT03213834_exc_T9
Temporal
previous
NCT03213834_exc_T10
Procedure
medical thoracoscopy
NCT03213834_exc_T11
Mood
cannot be performed
NCT03213834_exc_T12
Temporal
within 48 hours
NCT03213834_exc_T13
Negation
cannot
NCT03213834_exc_T14
Condition
inability to tolerate
NCT03213834_exc_T15
Procedure
procedure
NCT03213834_exc_T16
Condition
hemodynamic instability
NCT03213834_exc_T17
Condition
hypoxemia
NCT03213834_exc_T18
Qualifier
severe
NCT03213834_exc_T19
Scope
hemodynamic instability or severe hypoxemia
NCT03213834_exc_T20
Scope
inability to tolerate procedure
NCT03213834_exc_T21
Condition
coagulopathy
NCT03213834_exc_T22
Procedure
correct
NCT03213834_exc_T23
Mood
inability to
NCT03213834_exc_T24
Condition
homogeneously echogenic effusion
NCT03213834_exc_T25
Procedure
pleural US