An interventional study of Drain in Complications, Postoperative, sponsored by Twin Cities Spine Center. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-02.
Sponsored by Twin Cities Spine Center · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
This project is being done to understand if a drain reduces recovery problems after surgery, such as infection or the need for more surgery.
The primary objective is to prospectively evaluate drains used in lumbar spine surgery in patients undergoing one- or two-level open posterior lumbar decompression or decompression and fusion for the relative risk of return to the operating room within 90 days.
1,332 studies on the registry are indexed under Postoperative Complications; 311 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 975 is above the median of 114 across 766 interventional studies indexed under Postoperative Complications.
Browse Postoperative Complications studies →Twin Cities Spine Center is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
The drain will be used with compression suction.
Device: Drain
The drain will be used with gravity alone.
Device: Drain
No drain will be used.
A drain is a small flexible tube that is placed next to where the spine was operated upon.
Reoperation
Relative risk of return to the operating room
Time frame: 90 days postoperatively
Time to drain removal
Time (minutes) to drain removal
Time frame: 90 days postoperatively
Drain volume
Daily volume (mL) of fluid collected by the drain
Time frame: 90 days postoperatively
Transfusion
Need (yes or no) for a postoperative transfusion
Time frame: 90 days postoperatively
Length of Stay
Length of hospital stay
Time frame: 90 days postoperatively
Complications
Occurrence (yes/no) of wound complications, wound dehiscence, superficial wound infection or deep wound inflection
Time frame: 90 days postoperatively
Plan to share: No — We do not want to share IPD
Started Jan 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jan 2035, 119 months after the start.
Of 391 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Postoperative Complications, half reached primary completion within 20 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 8 and three quarters within 44. This study's planned 119 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 395 studies reached it within 21 months; a quarter within 8 and three quarters within 45.
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