Overview
The aim of this study was to conduct a prospective randomized controlled trial to design simulator and in vitro lung standardized training, to perform a learning curve evaluation of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) operating physicians, and to assess the role of standardized training in TBLC.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥18 years
- suspected ILD.
- ≤3 months since HRCT
- Forced vital capacity (FVC) ≥50% of predicted value
- Diffused lung carbon monoxide (DLCO) ≥35% predicted value
- Echocardiography ≤ 12 months
- Estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressure ≤40 mmHg
- Body mass index (BMI) ≤35 kg/m2
- Patient consent for experimentation
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with platelet counts less than 50 × 109/L or prothrombin time international normalized ratio (INR) higher than 1.5
- Patients refused to participate in the experiment