Specialty: Trauma and Emergency Care, Primary sub-specialty: Emergency Medicine
Conditions
Interventions
Trial design and setting
This is a pragmatic multicentre, parallel-group, individually randomised, superiority trial with internal pilot, economic evaluation and integrated QRI.
The trial will recrui
Sponsors
North Bristol NHS Trust
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to 110 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Potential participants must satisfy the following criteria to be enrolled in this study: 1. Patients presenting to hospital with a traumatic pneumothorax, haemothorax or haemopneumothorax (unilateral or bilateral) confirmed on computed tomography (CT) up to 24 hours from presentation; 2. aged, or believed to be aged, 16 years and over 3. AND in whom the treating clinician(s) believes a chest drain is required.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Potential participants who meet any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation: 1. Treating clinician(s) believe injuries are immediately incompatible with life, whereby the patients have no ongoing active management of other injuries or palliation is being undertaken. 2. Patient in cardiorespiratory arrest at the point of randomisation. 3. Retrospective paediatric exclusion if patient confirmed to be less than 16 years.
Countries
England, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Wales
Contacts
Public ContactGraziella Mazza
Outcome results
None listed