NCT05230420

Urine Bag Usage Versus Chest Drain Clamping After Lung Resection Surgeries

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Al-Quds University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Investigators will compare two different approaches of postoperative drainage after the standard water-seal drain has been used efficiently; one is by using urine bag and check it get blown by the leaked air, two is by using clamping of the water seal drain. Investigators will compare them depending on several factors such as; cost effectiveness, hospital stay, duration of putting the drain and more, reinsertion of the chest tube and others.

Conditions

• Pneumothorax and Air Leak
• Pneumothorax
• Pleura Injury
• Pleural Effusion

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Clamping	Clamping of chest tube
OTHER	Urine bag	Attachment of a urine bag to chest tube

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-11-25
• Completion: 2022-12-25
• First posted: 2022-02-08
• Last updated: 2022-02-08

Locations

4 sites across 3 countries: Egypt, Italy, Palestinian Territories