An interventional study of chest tube and VATS without chest tube placement in Solitary Pulmonary Nodule, sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital. Status unknown. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-06-29.
Sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Chest tube placement after thoracoscopy surgery had been generally accepted as routine procedure for removal of the residual intrapleural fluid and air, however, it would cause post-operative pain, prohibit ambulation after surgery, and prolong the hospital stay. According to the recent studies, omission of chest tube placement after minor thoracoscopic procedures (such as pulmonary wedge resection) had been safe and feasible, and it also reduced the post-operative pain and shortened the hospital stay. We will conduct a prospective randomized trial in National Taiwan University Hospital.
We will enroll 100 patients with peripheral lung nodule who will be randomly assigned to no chest tube placement (tubeless group) or chest tube placement (control group) after thoracoscopic wedge resection with out without lymph adenectomy. The primary endpoints are to compare the post-operative hospital stay and post-operative pain sale between the two groups. The secondary endpoints are to compare the intercostal neuralgia and wound satisfaction one month after surgery between the two groups.
188 studies on the registry are indexed under Multiple Pulmonary Nodules; 60 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 88 across 97 interventional studies indexed under Multiple Pulmonary Nodules.
Browse Multiple Pulmonary Nodules studies →National Taiwan University Hospital is the lead sponsor of 2,563 studies on the registry; 569 are open to participants now.
Of its 11 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 2 (18%) have results posted.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Exclusion Criteria:
Interventions: VATS without chest tube placement
Procedure: VATS without chest tube placement
VATS with chest tube placement
Device: chest tube · Procedure: VATS with chest tube placement
Patient received Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) wedge resection for peripheral lung nodule without chest tube placement (Tubeless)
Postoperative hospital stay
Time frame: 1 week
Postoperative pain score
Time frame: 1 week
Postoperative intercostal neuralgia
Time frame: 1 month
Postoperative wound satisfaction
Time frame: 1 month
Hospital cost
Time frame: 1 week
No study locations are listed for this record.
Plan to share: Yes
This study is status unknown, as verified in Jun 2016. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
National Taiwan University Hospital