Impact of Drains on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting After Thyroid Surgery (PONTS)

Kantonsspital Liestal

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting

Treatments: Other: No-drain after surgery; Device: Placement of a wound drain post surgery (Redon; Medicoplast)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01679418

PONV_thyroidsurgery

Details and patient eligibility

About

Wound Drains after Thyroid- and Parathyroid Surgery Impact on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV)

Full description

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is common after thyroid surgery. Many patients describe PONV as more irritant in the postoperative course than the endured pain. Postoperative drains are put after thyroid surgery to early recognize bleeding and to collect wound secretion to avoid pressure on the trachea. Whether wound drains do impact on PONV is not known. Therefore, we tested the impact of wound drains on PONV after thyroid- and parathyroid surgery in a randomized controlled clinical trial.

Enrollment: 139 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• older than 18 years of age
• informed consent
• planed thyroid- or parathyroid resection
• euthyreostatic preoperative condition

Exclusion criteria

• younger than 18 years of age
• pregnancy
• no informed consent
• retrosternal struma
• known postoperative nausea and vomiting prior to surgery
• severe and life threatening systemic health issues

Trial design

139 participants in 2 patient groups

Drain placement (Group A)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients in group A received a wound drain after surgery.

Treatment:

Device: Placement of a wound drain post surgery (Redon; Medicoplast)

No-drain placement (group B)

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Patients assigned to group B, did not receive a wound drain after surgery.

Treatment:

Other: No-drain after surgery