Prolonged Hospital Stay After Thoracoscopic Anatomical Lung Resections (PROTRACT)

Ghent University Hospital (UZ)

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

RATS Surgery

Postoperative Complication

Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures

Pain Postoperative

Pulmonary Segmentectomy

Air Leakage

Pulmonary Lobectomy

VATS

Treatments

Procedure: VATS/RATS anatomical lung resection

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06638645

THE-2024-0246

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, the reasons for prolonged hospital stay after thoracoscopic (video- or robot-assisted) anatomical lung resections are investigated. Currently, whenever possible, these anatomical lung resections are performed thoracoscopically, as they offer significant improvements in terms of postoperative pain, number of postoperative complications, rehabilitation, tolerance for adjuvant chemotherapy, and length of hospital stay. The development of an 'Enhanced Recovery After Surgery' (ERAS) protocol for lung surgery has further reduced hospital stay and the need for opioids for analgesia. Despite the optimal implementation of the ERAS protocol, there are still patients who need to stay in the hospital longer than the median. The aim of this research is to investigate the reasons for this.

Enrollment

140 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients referred for elective minimally invasive (uniportal or multiportal video- or robot-assisted) anatomical lung resection (lobectomy or segmentectomy)
Informed consent obtained pre-operatively
Age 18 years or older

Exclusion criteria

Patients younger than 18 years old
Traumatic event as indication for lung resection
Non-anatomical lung resections
Thoracotomy
Patients already hospitalized for other pathologies, pre-existent and not related to the lung surgery
Urgent/emergency procedures