Clinical Trial Evaluating the Optimal Technique for Chest Tube Removal
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Official title
Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating the Optimal Technique for Chest Tube Removal
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00873587
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Lead sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Other
- Enrollment
- 342 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Chest tube pull on inspiration Procedure
- Expiration Procedure
Procedure
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 19 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 28, 2009
- Primary completion
- Aug 31, 2011
- Completion
- Aug 31, 2012
- Last update posted
- Oct 13, 2015
2009 – 2012
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham | Alabama | 35294 | — |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Oct 13, 2015 · Synced May 14, 2026
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