Recruiting
Phase 3

Pigtail Catheter vs. Chest Tube

Sponsor:

University of Arizona

Code:

NCT01537289

Conditions

Traumatic Pneumothorax

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Pigtail catheter insertion (Cook)

chest tube (28-French)

Study Details

Brief summary:

A small 14-French(F) pigtail catheter (PC) has been shown to work equally well with traditional 32-40F chest tube (CT), especially in traumatic pneumothorax.

There are no clinical data on tube-site pain. The investigators hypothesize that PC tube site pain is less than CT.

Conditions

Traumatic Pneumothorax

Study ID

NCT01537289

Start date

Jul, 2010

Status verified date

Feb, 2012

Completion date

Jun, 2012

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun, 2012

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years old and above
  • Suffer traumatic pneumothorax that requires chest tube insertion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Emergency chest tube insertion
  • patient refuses
  • patient is unable to provide or rate pain assessment
  • prisoner
  • pregnancy
  • patient with GCS less than 13

Study Design

Enrollment

38 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Pigtail catheter

active comparator: Traditional chest tube

28-French chest tube

Interventions

Pigtail catheter insertion (Cook)

insertion of pigtail catheter to decompress pneumothorax

chest tube (28-French)

inserting chest tube to decompress pneumothorax

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in Tube-site pain, pain medication requirement [ Time Frame: day 0, 1, 2 ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

University of Ariznoa Medican Center, Main campus

Recruiting

Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724

Contacts

Narong Kulvatunyou, MD

520-626-6302nkulvatunyou@surgery.arizona.edu

Coy Collins, RN

520-626-2876ccollins@surgery.arizona.edu

Principal Investigator:

Narong Kulvatunyou, MD

More Information

Sponsor

University of Arizona

Last update posted

Feb 23, 2012

Last verified

Feb, 2012

Keywords

  • Trauma
  • Pneumothorax

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Arizona on 2012-02-23.