Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Comparison Between Electronic and Traditional Chest Drainage Systems

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Trial Identification

Brief Title: Comparison Between Electronic and Traditional Chest Drainage Systems

Official Title: Multicenter Randomized Study on Comparison Between Electronic and Traditional Chest Drainage Systems

Study ID: NCT03536130

Conditions

Lung Cancer

Interventions

Electronic chest drainage system

Study Description

Brief Summary: This study is designed to compare the electronic chest drainage system (Drentech Palm Evo) with the traditional system, both already in use in the clinical practice, in a cohort of patients who received thoracoscopic lobectomy. This study is not evaluating safety or efficacy of these systems. This study's primary aim is to determine if the use of a digital chest system compared with a traditional system reduce the duration of chest drainage and length of hospital stay. Moreover, the investigators aim to quantify the variability of results regarding the subjective observer evaluation of active air leaks (through the traditional system) compared with the objective data registered by the digital system. Finally the investigators want to evaluate whether it is possible through the digital device to distinguish an active air leak from a pleural space effect by the evaluation of intrapleural differential pressure and to identify potential predictors of prolonged air leaks.

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