Chest Drain Regular Flushing in Complicated Parapneumonic Effusions and Empyemas
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Brief summary
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Infections of the pleural space are common, and patients require antibiotics and chest drain placement to evacuate the chest from the infected fluid. Chest drains can get blocked by the drainage fluid and material. For this reason, it is thought that flushing the chest drain with saline solution, can help maintain the patency of the tube. This proposed study will evaluate the impact of regular chest drain flushing on the length of time to chest tube removal and total hospitalization as well as improvement in chest imaging and the need for additional interventions on the infected space.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT06427538
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 96 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 20, 2024
- Primary completion
- Dec 29, 2026
- Completion
- Dec 29, 2026
- Last update posted
- Feb 19, 2026
2024 – 2026
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 5
- U.S. states
- 5
- U.S. cities
- 5
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Ford | Sterling Heights | Michigan | 48310 | Recruiting |
| Creighton University | Omaha | Nebraska | 68124 | Recruiting |
| Mount Sinai | New York | New York | 10029 | Recruiting |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville | Tennessee | 37203 | Recruiting |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond | Virginia | 23298 | Recruiting |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Feb 19, 2026 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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