Small Catheter Drainage With Chest Tube Versus Chest Tube Alone After Uniport Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Procedures (uniportal VATS)

Assiut University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Lung Diseases

Treatments: Device: central venous catheter (small catheter drainage)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03484663

uniport VATS

Details and patient eligibility

About

Small catheter drainage with chest tube after uniport Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Procedures

Full description

Traditionally an Intercostal Tube is applied intraoperative following VATS procedures to drain the remaining pneumothorax and residual effusion , some of the residual effusion can't drain by intercostal tube which lead to prolonged hospital stay hypothesis that putting an additional small catheter drainage at the most depended part of hemithoracic early removal of chest tube without add more pain or hospital stay to the patient.

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing uniport video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery at Assiut University Hospital who need intercostal drainage postoperative

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who do not need intercostal tube post operative

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

Small catheter with chest tube after uniport vats

Experimental group

Description:

Insertion of small catheter drainage in the same opening with chest tube after uniport vats

Treatment:

Device: central venous catheter (small catheter drainage)

Chest tube only after uniport vats

No Intervention group

Description:

After uniport vats we put chest tube only