Status:
COMPLETED
Comparing Active Versus Passive Aspiration in Therapeutic Thoracentesis: Efficacy, Procedure Time, and Patient Safety
Lead Sponsor:
Sheikh Zayed Federal Postgraduate Medical Institute
Conditions:
Pleural Effusion
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This single-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) aims to compare the efficacy and safety of active manual aspiration versus passive gravity drainage during therapeutic thoracentesis for large sympt...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients of either gender.
- Aged above 18 years.
- With symptomatic large pleural effusion (either exudative or transudative).
- Requiring therapeutic pleurocentesis.
- Modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) dyspnea scale grade 3-4.
Exclusion
- Uncorrected bleeding diathesis.
- Chest wall cellulitis at the intended site of puncture.
- Uncooperative patients.
- Loculated pleural effusion.
- Traumatic hemothorax.
- Empyema thoracis.
- Hydropneumothorax.
- Patients who refused to participate.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2020
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
60 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT07184736
Start Date
March 1 2020
End Date
March 1 2022
Last Update
September 22 2025
Active Locations (1)
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Sheikh Zayed Hospital
Lahore, Punjab Province, Pakistan, 54470