# Clinical Trial Evaluating the Optimal Technique for Chest Tube Removal

> **NCT00873587** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **University of Alabama at Birmingham** · enrollment: 342 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Chest Tube Removal

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Chest tube pull on inspiration
- **PROCEDURE:** Expiration

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00873587
- **Lead sponsor:** University of Alabama at Birmingham
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2009-03
- **Primary completion:** 2011-09
- **Final completion:** 2012-09
- **Target enrollment:** 342 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2015-10-14


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00873587

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00873587, "Clinical Trial Evaluating the Optimal Technique for Chest Tube Removal". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-03 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00873587. Licensed CC0.

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