SynthesisWorld journal of surgical oncology2020
Single versus double chest drains after pulmonary lobectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Drainless robot-assisted minimally invasive oesophagectomy-randomized controlled trial (RESPECT).Trials · 2023Trial
- A novel drainage strategy using chest tube plus pleural catheter in uniportal upper lobectomy: A randomized controlled trial.Thoracic cancer · 2023Trial
- Coaxial Drainage versus Standard Chest Tube after Pulmonary Lobectomy: A Randomized Controlled Study.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Trial
- From tradition to evidence: a narrative review for standardizing chest tube management after anatomic lung resection.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Review
- Postoperative Lymph Is a Proximal Source of ctDNA for Detection of Recurrence in HPV-Independent Head and Neck Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026Article
- Association between modified same-intercostal chest tube placement and acute postoperative pain after uniportal VATS lobectomy: an overlap weighted retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Postoperative drainage with double 8F ultrafine chest tubes improves pain control and reduces specific complications in uniportal thoracoscopic lung tumor resection: a retrospective multicenter cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- The evolution of chest tube management following lung cancer surgery: many options, scarce evidence.Translational lung cancer research · 2025Review
- Chest drain through utility vs separate incision in single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: a randomized controlled trial.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
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- Drains in Abdominoplasties: The Less the Better?Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2024Article
- The safety and efficacy of additional chest tube placement in patients with prolonged air leaks after pulmonary resection: a propensity score-matched analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Enhanced recovery after surgery and chest tube management.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Review
- Single chest drain is not inferior to double chest drain after robotic esophagectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious randomized controlled trials have compared the efficacy and safety of single chest drain (SCD) and double chest drains (DCD) in the patients undergone pulmonary lobectomy, yet the results remain inconsistent. Therefore, we aimed to conduct this present systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the role of SCD and DCD in the patients undergone pulmonary lobectomy.
methodsPubMed, Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane library, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, Weipu, and China Biomedical Literature databases were searched up to February 28, 2020, to identify the potential RCTs on SCD and DCD in the patients undergone pulmonary lobectomy. The main outcomes including verbal pain score, the duration of drainage (days), the length of hospital stay (days), and the incidence of air leak and re-drainage were collected and analyzed. All the data were processed and analyzed with software RevMan 5.3. We calculated and analyzed the odds ratios (OR) for dichotomous outcomes and the mean difference (MD) for continuous outcomes.
resultsA total of 11 RCTs with 1214 patients were included, in which 589 patients received SCD treatment and 625 patients DCD treatment. The verbal pain score (MD = - 0.54, 95%CI (- 0.87, - 0.21)), the duration of drainage (MD = - 0.65, 95%CI (- 1.04, - 0.26)), and the length of hospital stay (MD = - 0.55, 95%CI (- 0.80, - 0.29)) in SCD group were significantly less than that of DCD group. There were no significant differences on the incidence of air leak (OR = 1.35, 95%CI (0.86, 2.11)) and re-drainage (OR = 0.88, 95%CI (0.41, 1.90)) among the two groups.
conclusionsSCD is a safe option, and it has the advantages of less postoperative pain, shortened duration of drain, and reduced length of hospital stay when compared with DCD in the patients undergone pulmonary lobectomy.
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