NCT03546764: P-CAT

Multi-center:The Small (14F) Percutaneous Catheter vs. Large (28-40F) Open Chest Tube for Traumatic Hemothorax (P-CAT)

Completed NA Last updated 3 May 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Percutaneous catheter in The Efficacy of Percutaneous Catheter vs. Open Chest Tube in 61 participants. Completed in 1 February 2021.

Timeline

1 March 2018

Primary endpoint
1 November 2020

1 February 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Arizona
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	61
Start date	1 March 2018
Primary completion	1 November 2020
Estimated completion	1 February 2021
Sites	4 locations across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Percutaneous catheter

Conditions studied

• The Efficacy of Percutaneous Catheter vs. Open Chest Tube — all drugs for The Efficacy of Percutaneous Catheter vs. Open Chest Tube →
• Traumatic Hemothorax — all drugs for Traumatic Hemothorax →

Sponsor

University of Arizona

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with The Efficacy of Percutaneous Catheter vs. Open Chest Tube or Traumatic Hemothorax. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

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 bleeding (hemopneumothorax). These conditions are treated with the insertion of a tube into the chest called a chest tube (CT). Insertion of the CT is very painful for the patient due to the size or diameter of the tube. Alternative to CT is a small percutaneous catheter (PC), pigtail or non-pigtail. At Banner-University of Arizona Tucson Campus (B-UATC) investigator prefers inserting a small pigtail catheter for the management of hemothorax or hemopnuemothorax. The primary purpose of our study is to see if the use of the PC is just as effective as CT in terms of removing leaked blood and/or air from the chest cavity.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. The small (14 Fr) percutaneous catheter (P-CAT) versus large (28-32 Fr) open chest tube for traumatic hemothorax: A multicenter randomized clinical trial.
   Kulvatunyou N, Bauman ZM, Zein Edine SB, de Moya M, et al · · 2021 · cited 34× · PMID 33843831 · DOI 10.1097/ta.0000000000003180