DOES EARLY DRAINAGE OF TRAUMATIC HEMOTHORAX BENEFITS OUTCOMES OF THE PATIENT ??
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: S298- Other specified injuries of thoraxHealth Condition 2: S271- Traumatic hemothorax
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/03/032048
- Lead Sponsor
- JPNATC AIIMS NEW DELHI
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1-Cases presented in ED with Traumatic Hemothorax/Hemopnemothorax, drained with ICD placement within 12 hours of Injury.
2-Blunt as well as penetrating thoracic trauma with hemothorax.
3-Isolated thoracic as well as polytrauma patient with Abbreviated Injury Score (AIS) of 3 or less in body regions other than thoracic Region.
4-Age group between 15 years to 65 years.
Exclusion Criteria
1-Unfit for surgical intervention
2-Referred cases with Traumatic Hemothorax / Hemopnemothorax with ICD insitu, presented after more than 48 hours of Injury.
3-Requiring or undergoing emergent thoracotomy.
4-Patient with severe medical disease like Congestive heart disease, End Stage Renal Disease, Severe liver cirrhosis, COPD etc.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Total Length of stay (total ventilatory days, ICU days and total hospital days).Timepoint: At the time of discharge of the patient.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Incidence of retained hemothorax after early VATS. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: TILL DISCHARGE;Incidence of Complications (empyema, Pneumonia, sepsis).Timepoint: TILL DISCHARGE;Incidence of Conversion to open Thoracotomy for drainage of Hemothorax.Timepoint: TILL DISCHARGE;Requirement of additional intervention (intra-pleural instillation of streptokinase, Image guided catheter or open thoracotomy).Timepoint: TILL DISCHARGE