NCT03484663

Small Catheter Drainage With Chest Tube Versus Chest Tube Alone After Uniport Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Procedures

Small Catheter Drainage With Chest Tube After Uniport Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Procedures

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Assiut University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Lung Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	central venous catheter (small catheter drainage)	Insertion central venous catheter ( small catheter drainage ) after uniport vats to decrease hospital stay and to easy drainage after procedure

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-01
• Primary completion: 2019-05-01
• Completion: 2019-07-01
• First posted: 2018-04-02
• Last updated: 2018-06-11