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Last refreshed on: 9 January 2023
Main ID:  NCT03093610
Date of registration: 22/03/2017
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: University Hospital Inselspital, Berne
Public title: Evaluation of Fluid Output Threshold for Safe Chest Tube Removal - A Potential Way to Decrease Length of Stay in Hospital and to Improve Postoperative Care After Lung Surgery?
Scientific title: Evaluation of Fluid Output Threshold for Safe Chest Tube Removal - A Potential Way to Decrease Length of Stay in Hospital and to Improve Postoperative Care After Lung Surgery?
Date of first enrolment: May 31, 2019
Target sample size: 337
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03093610
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Prevention. Masking: Single (Care Provider).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Switzerland
Contacts
Name:     Patrick Dorn
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Affiliation:  Chief, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Bern University Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:

- Lobectomy/ Bilobectomy

- Segmentectomy

- Signed consent

- Age of majority

Exclusion criteria:

- Pneumonectomy

- Atypical resections

- Empyema

- Pleural effusion (not related to surgery)

- Pleurodesis

- Pregnancy



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pulmonary Resection
Chest Tube Management
Pleural Effusion Recurrence
Intervention(s)
Procedure: Test
Procedure: Traditional
Primary Outcome(s)
Pain scores (VAS-Score) [Time Frame: postoperative Period until 3 hours after Chest tube removal]
Number of recurrent pleural effusions after chest tube removal [Time Frame: up to 6 weeks postoperative]
Time Point of chest tube removal [Time Frame: Postoperative, expected to be up to 1 week after surgery]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Patient discharge [Time Frame: At time of discharge, on average 4-7 days]
Secondary ID(s)
14032017
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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