Chronic Pain After Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) Surgery for Pneumothorax

Not Applicable

Terminated

• Conditions: Pneumothorax
• Interventions: Device: 5mm videoscope; Device: 10mm videoscope

• Registration Number: NCT00969423
• Lead Sponsor: Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Brief Summary

The study will investigate characteristics of chronic pain after VATS surgery with two different sizes of videoscopic equipment.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2009-08-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-08-31
• Study First Posted: 2009-09-01
• Study Start: 2009-10
• Status Verified: 2011-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-08-17
• Last Update Posted: 2011-08-18
• Primary Completion: 2011-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

• PSP
• Able to understand and give consent
• Can read
• Residing in Denmark

Exclusion Criteria

• Unable to understand the written information in Danish
• Abuse (Medicine, Drugs, Alcohol)
• Severe psychiatric Illness
• Conflicting neurological disease
• Conversion to open surgery
• Use of neuroaxial analgesia
• Use of electric cauterizer necessitated
• Additional thoracic surgery in the investigation period

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
5 mm equipment	5mm videoscope	5 mm videoscopic equipment
10 mm	10mm videoscope	Use of standard 10 mm VATS equipment

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
QST score	2 years
Post surgical pain	2 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient related factors, depression, coping etc.	2 years

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Rigshospitalet; 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark