NCT01775657

Digital Versus Analog Pleural Drainage Following Pulmonary Resection

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 176 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will evaluate the impact of continuous, digital pulmonary air leak monitoring on the duration of pleural drainage after lung resection in patients with and without a pulmonary air leak on postoperative day 1. Patients undergoing pulmonary resection who fit the inclusion criteria will be identified pre-operatively. Patients within two groups (air leak and no air leak) will be randomized to receive either the analogue system or the digital system. Both systems are approved for use in hospitals by Health Canada. There will be 88 patients in each air leak group. Hypothesis: Continuous, quantitative monitoring of PAL following lung resection leads to an improvement in primary outcomes.

Conditions

• Pulmonary Air Leak
• Lobectomy
• Wedge Resection
• Segmentectomy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Thopaz (Digital drainage)
DEVICE	Pleur Evac (Analogue drainage)

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-05-01
• Completion: 2021-12-01
• First posted: 2013-01-25
• Last updated: 2022-11-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada