Clinical trial NCT05358158: Chest dRain rEmoval intrAoperatively afTer thoracOscopic Wedge Resection
Official title: Efficacy of Avoiding Chest Drain After Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Wedge Resection
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Lung Neoplasms
Lung Surgery
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
Fast-track Surgery
Pain
Opioid Use
Remission
Lead sponsor: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Aarhus University Hospital
First posted: 2022-05-03
Enrollment: 94
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Chest drain is used routinely after lung surgery. Despite preliminary studies demonstrate the feasibility and safety of intraoperative chest drain removal, these are either retrospective or mainly concerning benign disease.

Hypothesis: Participants treated without post-operative chest tube after thoracoscopic wedge resection have less pain, reduced opioid usage without increasing postoperative complications than participants treated with standard post-operative chest tube, and could possibly be discharged earlier.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age ≥18 years.
* Patients referred for elective three port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery wedge resection of the lung for suspected or confirmed malignant nodules.
* first second forced expiratory volume ≥60% of expected.
* No increased bleeding risk (e.g. preoperative international normalized ratio \>2, overdue discontinuation of anticoagulants according to guidelines by the Danish Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis, known coagulopathy).
* Not scheduled for frozen section pathology of wedge resection and subsequent lobectomy.
* Able and willing to give informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Increased risk of post-operative air leak assessed perioperatively by the surgeon (e.g. severe adhesions, bullous/emphysematous lung tissue, defects of the visceral pleura due to iatrogenic or other reasons, suturing in the lung tissue, deep lung resection).
* Increased risk of post-operative bleeding assessed perioperatively by the surgeon (e.g. intraoperative bleeding or oozing).
* Air leak during intraoperative air leak test.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Acute Pain
timeFrame: Up to postoperative day 1
measure: Rescue analgesics
timeFrame: Up to postoperative day 1
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Pneumothorax
timeFrame: Up to postoperative 2 weeks
measure: Complications
timeFrame: Up to postoperative day 30
measure: Chest drain reinsertion
timeFrame: Up to postoperative day 30
measure: Length of stay
timeFrame: Through post-operative discharge, an average of 2 days
measure: Time to fulfilled discharge criteria
timeFrame: Through post-operative discharge, an average of 2 days
measure: Readmission
timeFrame: Through post-operative admission, an average of 7 days
measure: Quality of recovery after surgery
timeFrame: Up to postoperative day 1
measure: Standard analgesics given
timeFrame: Up to postoperative 2 weeks
measure: Persistent pain
timeFrame: Up to postoperative day 6
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Aarhus
country: Denmark
facility: Thomas Decker Christensen
state: Aarhus N
city: Copenhagen
country: Denmark
facility: Rigshospitalet
Study officials:
affiliation: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
name: René H Petersen, MD, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Aarhus University Hospital
name: Thomas D Christensen, MD, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
name: Bo L Holbek, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Aarhus University Hospital
name: Morten Bendixen, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Aarhus University Hospital
name: Jonas J Rasmussen, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
name: Henrik Kehlet, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
name: Henrik J Hansen, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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