NCT03584113View on ClinicalTrials.gov

VATS Decortication Versus IR Guided Chest Tube Insertion With Fibrinolytics for the Management of Empyema

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

70

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

August 24, 2021

Primary Completion Date

August 1, 2025

Study Completion Date

September 1, 2025

Conditions
Empyema, Pleural
Interventions
OTHER

Video assisted thorascopic decortication

Video assisted thorascopic decortication surgery as primary intervention for empyema

OTHER

Interventional radiology guided chest tube insertion with MIST2 trial fibrinolytics

Image guided chest tube insertion by IVR with intrapleural fibrinolytics (six doses of dornase \[5mg\] and alteplase \[10mg\] Q12hours).

Trial Locations (1)

K7L2V7

RECRUITING

Queen's University/Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Kingston

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Dr. Wiley Chung

OTHER