Pigtail Catheter Versus Chest Tube in the Management of Traumatic Pneumothorax

University of Arizona

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Traumatic Pneumothorax

Treatments: Device: Pigtail catheter insertion (Cook); Device: chest tube (28-French)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01537289

10-0405-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

A small 14-French(F) pigtail catheter (PC) has been shown to work equally well with traditional 32-40F chest tube (CT), especially in traumatic pneumothorax.

There are no clinical data on tube-site pain. The investigators hypothesize that PC tube site pain is less than CT.

Full description

Primary outcome: - Tube site pain

• Pain medication requirement

Secondary outcome: failure rate insertion-related complication

Enrollment: 38 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years old and above
• Suffer traumatic pneumothorax that requires chest tube insertion

Exclusion criteria

• Emergency chest tube insertion
• patient refuses
• patient is unable to provide or rate pain assessment
• prisoner
• pregnancy
• patient with GCS less than 13

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Pigtail catheter

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Pigtail catheter insertion (Cook)

Traditional chest tube

Active Comparator group

Description:

28-French chest tube

Treatment:

Device: chest tube (28-French)