23
Participants
Start Date
August 10, 2017
Primary Completion Date
March 31, 2020
Study Completion Date
August 1, 2020
pleurectomy/decortication
"VAT-PD is a type of keyhole surgery performed under general anaesthesia using a telescope and instruments put inside the chest. Through small incisions, or keyholes made between the ribs, the thoracic surgeon removes the hard rind of the tumour over the surface of the lung, thereby allowing the 'trapped' lung to fully expand again. Simultaneous removal of mesothelioma from the outer pleural membrane allows pleurodesis to occur."
indwelling pleural catheter
A soft silicone catheter (IPC) with a one-way valve at the end is inserted a few centimetres under the skin under local anaesthesia. The inside end of the catheter is inserted into the pleural space and the outside end is connected to a vacuum drainage bottle. The IPC permits regular fluid drainage.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool
North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol
Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Derby
Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow
University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester
Barts Health NHS Trust, London
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Manchester
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham
Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Peterborough
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent
Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge
National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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King's College London
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University of Sheffield
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Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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