Clinical trial · Interventional
The Impacts of Intermittent Chest Tube Clamping on Chest Tube Drainage Duration and Postoperative Hospital Stay After Lung Cancer Surgery
The Impacts of Intermittent Chest Tube Clamping on Chest Tube Drainage Duration and Postoperative Hospital Stay After Lung Cancer Surgery: A Prospective Study
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
All patients undergo lateral thoracotomy or video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and are operated on by the same thoracic surgical team. All patients are managed with gravity drainage (water seal only, without suction) on the day of operation. Eligible patients are randomized to control group or clamping group at a 1:1 ratio before 3pm on the postoperative day. Patients in control group and those in clamping group are managed with different protocols after 3pm on the postoperative day.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management of Lung Cancer Patients | Lung Neoplasm | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.90 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| clamping group | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- clamping group
- description
- Clamping group are managed with clamping protocol after 3pm on the postoperative day as follow: the chest tube will be clamped, and the nurses will check the patient every 6 h. If the patient has no problems with compliance, the clamp will be removed for half an hour in the morning to record the drainage volume every 24 h.
- interventionNames
- Procedure: clamping group
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- control group
- description
- Patients in control group are managed with gravity drainage (water seal only, without suction) all the time after operation.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- chest tube drainage duration
- timeFrame
- From date of operation until the date of chest tube removal, assessed up to 10 days
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 80 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: Pathological diagnosis of lung cancer Treated with lobectomy and systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection/ systematic sampling Managed with gravity drainage (water seal only, without suction) Re-expansion of the lung confirmed on the morning of the first postoperative day Exclusion Criteria: Thoracic cavity infection Prolonged air leakage Reoperation due to chylothorax Atelectasis Liver cirrhosis Renal insufficiency Wound infection
References
Publications (1)
- DERIVEDWang Y, Pei Y, Lv C, Wang Y, Wang J, Zhao D, Li X, Yang Y, Kim AW, Toker A, Yan S, Wu N. Intermittent chest tube clamping decreases chest tube duration time and drainage volume after lung cancer surgery in patients without air leak: an open-label, randomized controlled trial. Transl Lung Cancer Res. 2022 Mar;11(3):357-365. doi: 10.21037/tlcr-22-150. PMID 35399576