Clinical Trial Evaluating the Optimal Technique for Chest Tube Removal

Chest Tube Removal Clinical Trial

Official title:

Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating the Optimal Technique for Chest Tube Removal

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00873587
• Other study ID #: F081016009
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 30, 2009
• Last updated: October 11, 2015
• Start date: March 2009
• Est. completion date: September 2012

Study information

• Verified date: September 2013
• Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

There are two commonly used methods to remove chest tubes following thoracotomy. One is to remove the chest tube at maximum inspiration, (patient is asked to take a deep breath in and hold it), and the other is to pull the chest tube at maximum expiration,(patient is asked to blow out as much air as they can can and hold it). There has been considerable discussion among Thoracic surgeons that one of these two methods may decrease the risk of pneumothorax, the most common complication associated with chest tube removal. The investigators will compare the two methods, and also identify risk factors of developing pneumothorax during chest tube removal.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 342
• Est. completion date: September 2012
• Est. primary completion date: September 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 19 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are post thoracotomy, pulmonary resection (wedge, lobectomy, segmentectomy, pneumonectomy), AND

• Have at least one chest tube.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Less than 19 years old,

• With interstitial lung disease, OR

• Any patient intubated.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chest Tube Removal

Intervention

Procedure:
• Chest tube pull on inspiration
Pull chest tube on Inspiration
• Expiration
Pull chest tube on Expiration

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham	Alabama

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Pneumothorax		Within 4 hours after chest tube removal	No
Secondary	Morbidity		4 hours after chest tube removal	No