Study of Postoperative Chest Tube Management

Completed · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Lung Resection

In brief

A 2 x 2 randomized study testing active versus passive drainage and regulated versus unregulated pleural pressure in patients undergoing anatomic lung resection

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02282462

Run by

Yale University

People needed

600

Starts

2014-12-01

Expected to finish

2017-12-18

Last updated by the study team

2020-06-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Able and willing to read, understand, and provide written consent
• Age 18-90
• Undergoing a segmentectomy, lobectomy, or bilobectomy (including sleeve resection). Both open and minimally invasive (thoracoscopic or robotic) resections are acceptable

You may not qualify if…

• Patients unstable enough to require ICU care for hemodynamic or respiratory problems during the first 7 days postoperatively. Patients admitted to the ICU for other reasons (e.g. bed availability, institutional norm, routine monitoring etc.) should NOT be excluded
• Patients undergoing non-anatomic lung resection only (i.e. wedge resection)
• Patients undergoing anatomic lung resection for bullous disease, lung abscess or bronchiectasis.
• Patients undergoing pneumonectomy or completion pneumonectomy

Where it is running

• Yale University — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• WellStar Health System - Kennestone — Marietta, Georgia, United States
• Beth Israel Deaconess/ Harvard — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Valley Health System — Paramus, New Jersey, United States
• St. Luke's Hospital — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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