The Small 14-French (Fr) Percutaneous Catheter vs. Large (28-32Fr) Open Chest Tube for Traumatic Hemothorax (P-CAT): A Multi-center Randomized Clinical Trial

xloma.fota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader The Small 14-French (Fr) Percutaneous Catheter vs. Large (28-32Fr) Open Chest Tube for Traumatic Hemothorax (P-CAT): A Multi-center Randomized Clinical Trial Via Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery - Published Ahead-of-Print Introduction The traditional treatment of traumatic hemothorax (HTX) has been an insertion of a large-bore 36-40 French (FR) chest tube (CT). Our previous single-center randomized controlled trial (RCT) had shown that 14Fr percutaneous catheters (PCs) (pigtail) were equally as effective as CTs. We performed a multi-center RCT, hypothesizing that PCs are as equally effective as CTs in the management of patients with traumatic HTX. (NCT03546764) Methods We performed a multi-institution prospective RCT comparing 14Fr PCs to 28-32Fr CTs in the management of patients with traumatic HTX from July, 2015 to September, 2020. We excluded patients who were in extremis and required emergent tube placement, and those who refused to participate. The primary outcome was failure rate, defined as a retained HTX requiring a second intervention. Secondary outcomes included daily drainage output, tube days, intensive care unit and hospital length of stay, and insertion perception experience (IPE) score on a scale of 1 to 5 (1=tolerable experience, 5=worst experience). Unpaired Student's t-test, chi-square and Wilcoxon rank-sum test was utilized with significance set at P View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.