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Vacuum vs Manual Drainage During Unilateral Thoracentesis

NCT03496987 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2023-07-14

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if there are any differences in terms of safety, pain, or drainage speed between thoracenteses via manual drainage vs vacuum suction.

Conditions

  • Pleural Effusion
  • Pleural Diseases
  • Thoracic Diseases

Interventions

DEVICE

Vacuum Bottle Drainage

Patients undergo drainage via vacuum bottles

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Yale University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jonathan T Puchalski, MD, MEd · Yale University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-12-01
Primary Completion
2017-09-30
Completion
2018-03-01

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