Clinical Trial Evaluating the Optimal Technique for Chest Tube Removal

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Conditions studied: Chest Tube Removal

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00873587

Run by

University of Alabama at Birmingham

People needed

342

Starts

2009-03-01

Expected to finish

2012-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-10-14

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients who are post thoracotomy, pulmonary resection (wedge, lobectomy, segmentectomy, pneumonectomy), AND
• Have at least one chest tube.

You may not qualify if…

• Less than 19 years old,
• With interstitial lung disease, OR
• Any patient intubated.

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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