Pigtail catheter(PC) has been used for thoracic drainage in the patients with pneumothorax or traumatic hemothorax/hemopneumothorax, and some study indicated that PC could obtain similar outcomes when comparing with chest tube(CT). Although PC could drain air and fluid out from pleural cavity and also help pulmonary re-expanding, rare reports are available to thoracic post-operative management. Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery(VATS) has been widely applied in many medical center in recent years, most of mediastinal nodes could be resected under uniportal-VATS. This study aims to further study the application of 12G PC during post-operative management and comparing the validity and safety between PC(12G) and CT(16F) after uniportal-VATS for mediastinal nodes resection.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
80
12G pigtail catheter would be used for post-operative chest drainage after uniportal-VATS for mediastinal nodes resection when comparing with the traditional 16F chest tube.
16F chest tube would be used for post-operative chest drainage after uniportal-VATS for mediastinal nodes resection when comparing with 12G pigtail catheter.
total drainage volume
Time frame: 1 month
tube duration
Time frame: 1 month
post-operative pain
assessed via the "Visual Analogue Scale" (VAS) which ranging from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst imaginable pain).
Time frame: 3 days after operation
rate of subcutaneous emphysema
Time frame: 1 month
infection rate of incision
Time frame: 1 month
length of hospital stay after surgery
Time frame: 1 month
rate of chest tube re-insertion or thoracocentesis
Time frame: 1 month
satisfaction of the incision after healing
Patients would be asked if they are satified with the appearence of the healed incision at the one-month follow-up evalution.
Time frame: 1 month
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