Clinical trials: The Efficacy of Percutaneous Catheter vs. Open Chest Tube
The Efficacy of Percutaneous Catheter vs. Open Chest Tube, Traumatic Hemothorax
Multi-center:The Small (14F) Percutaneous Catheter vs. Large (28-40F) Open Chest Tube for Traumatic Hemothorax (P-CAT)
After sustaining severe trauma to the chest, patients will often bleed into the chest cavity (pleural space) which is called hemothorax or they may also experience air leakage within the chest cavity in combination with the…
- Trial name
- P-CAT (NCT03546764)
- Testing
- Percutaneous catheter
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 61 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Arizona