Urokinase Versus Primary Video-Assisted Thorascopic Surgery for Empyema

Institute of Child Health

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Empyema

Treatments: Drug: insertion of a chest drain with urokinase instillation; Procedure: primary video-assisted thorascopic surgery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00144950

02AR04

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will compare VATS versus chest drain insertion and urokinase in the treatment of childhood empema by a randomised prospective study.

Sex: All

Ages: Under 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients under the age of 16 referred to GOSH for management of empyema

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)