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Digital Air Leak Monitoring for Patients Undergoing Lung Resection

NCT01810172 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 216

Last updated 2017-02-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Often the decision for chest tube removal or trial of chest tube clamping is based on subjective assessment. This can lead to delay in chest tube removal. Recently, monitoring and recording of air leaks has been done using digital pleural drainage devices. This provides us with objective and continuous recording of air leaks as well as changes in pleural pressure. Our hypothesis is that the use of the ATMOS digital pleural drainage system will result in shorter hospital stay in comparison to traditional pleural drainage systems.

Conditions

  • Pneumothorax
  • Atelectasis

Interventions

DEVICE

Digital pleural drainage system

Reusable device with disposable collection system for digital monitoring of air leak.

DEVICE

Dry suction pleura drainage device

Disposable dry suction operating system. Collects pleural fluid and monitors for air leak.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nova Scotia Health Authority

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Madelaine M Plourde, MD,MSc,FRCSC · CDHA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2016-04-30
Completion
2017-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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