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| Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital | OTHER_GOV |
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In thoracic surgery, it is usual to place apical and basal drains for complete drainage of air and fluid out of the pleural cavity. The routinely used drains are mainly made of plastic. Recently silastic drains of smaller size are used without any complication. The investigators designed a prospective randomized trial to compare the draining properties of the two types of drains following various resections in thoracic surgery.
Following the Institutional Review Board permission (permission no: 2009/27) the investigators started to recruit patients for the study in June 2009. Pneumonectomy, decortication, and diaphragm plication patients were not included in this study. The patients were consecutively placed in one of the two groups. In Group I, an apical 28FR size CD, and a basal 19FR SD were placed following surgery. In Group II, the apical drain was 28FR, and the basal drain was 32FR CDs. Basal drains were removed out when daily serous fluid drainage became 200 ml or less, and the apical were removed 48-72 hours following the cessation of air leak. The patients were discharged on the day after drain removal. The data concerning gender, age, diagnosis, operation side, type of operation, amount of fluid drainage, duration of fluid and air drainage, length of hospital stay, and complications if any, were noted.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Silastic drain | Experimental | Placement of 19FR silastic drain as basal drain |
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| Conventional drain | Active Comparator | Placement of 32FR conventional drain as basal drain |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Silastic vs conventional drain in thoracic surgery | Procedure | Apical drains will be identical in size and material, and the basal drains will be different in groups. The patients will be followed for daily amounts of fluid drainage, duration of air leaks and fluid drainage, and duration of hospitalization, and the results will be compared statistically to asses any possible relationships with the outcome and the type of basal drain used. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Duration of hospital stay | Duration of hospital stay will be noted on the study datasheet and will be measured in days. | 3 years |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Daily amount of fluid drainage | Daily amount of fluid drainage will be measured in mililiters during the daily rounds everyday, and will be noted on the datasheet. | 3 years |
| Duration of fluid drainage |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Research and Education Hospital | Bursa | Yildirim | 16330 | Turkey (Türkiye) |
Patient data except for the names and ID numbers will be shared.
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| ID | Term |
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| D019616 | Thoracic Surgical Procedures |
| ID | Term |
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| D013514 | Surgical Procedures, Operative |
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Everyday the drains will be checked for fluid drainage and the day without any drainage will be noted on the datasheet. Duration of fluid drainage will be measured in days since the postoperative day 1.
| 3 years |
| Duration of air leak | Everyday the drains will be checked for air leaks and the day without any air leak will be noted on the datasheet. Duration of air leak will be measured in days since the postoperative day 1. | 3 years |