Clinical trialNCT03973957UnknownInterventional

Talc Outpatient Pleurodesis With Indwelling Catheter

SponsorThe Cooper Health SystemEnrollment124Malignant Pleural EffusionPleural DiseasesPleural Effusion

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Summary

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This study will be a prospective, randomized trial comparing a new protocol to the standard of care. The investigators protocol and the standard of care involves a previously established procedure that will be completed in the investigators pulmonary procedure unit. The study will include using previously, well-established procedures (indwelling pleural catheter placement, talc slurry administration through an indwelling pleural catheter, pleuroscopy with talc poudrage administration) in addition to a new protocol (at home continuous drainage via indwelling pleural catheter).

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Investigators

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Wissam Abouzgheib
Cooper health system
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Cooper University Hospital
Camden, New Jersey, United States
Recruiting

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Drugs studied

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Fentanyl →Talc Slurry

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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 27 May 2019
Primary completion: 31 Jan 2021
Completion: 31 Jan 2021
Last update posted: 4 Jun 2019
Registered enrollment: 124
Registry id: NCT03973957

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