The study aims to identify specific or potential reasons that prolong the length of hospital stay after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy. The hypothesis is that patients who are still in hospital after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy are associated with prolonged air leak, infection, pneumonia, atrial fibrillation or other complications or social factors.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
160
Patients have a longer length of hospital stay than the common recommendation.
Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark
Length of postoperative hospital stay
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 2 days
Number and frequency of postoperative complications
Time frame: Up to 30 days
Numeric rating scale for postoperative pain in hospitalization
Patients are scored using a numeric rating scale ranging from 0 (no pain) to 10 (excruciating pain) per day.
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 2 days
Drainage duration
The criteria of drain removal is that air leak was consistently below 20 ml/min for at least 12 hours and fluid production was non-bloody and non-chylous without an upper volume limit.
Time frame: Duration from postoperative chest tube placement to potential removal, an average of 2 days
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