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Pneumothorax Therapy: Manual Aspiration Versus Conventional Chest Tube Drainage

NCT00556335 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2013-04-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of manual aspiration in comparison to conventional chest tube drainage in pneumothorax therapy:

1. whether manual aspiration will shorten hospital admission.
2. whether the lung will expand by means of clinical and radiological findings.

Conditions

  • Pneumothorax

Interventions

PROCEDURE

manual aspiration

air aspiration

PROCEDURE

conventional drainage

drainage, pneumocath

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Isala

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • J.W. van den Berg, Dr. · Isala Klinieken department of pulmonology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-04-30
Primary Completion
2010-04-30
Completion
2011-04-30

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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