Table 3.
Type of equipment used and speciality of physicians for aspiration and thoracic drainage
| Type of treatment | Category | All SP* | PSP* | SSP | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 1868 | n = 1510 | n = 358 | ||||
| Thoracic drainage (n = 670) | ||||||
| Equipment | 0.07 | |||||
| Chest tube, n (%) | 568 (91%) | 462 (92%) | 106 (86.9%) | |||
| Pleurocath, n (%) | 52 (8.3%) | 38 (7.6%) | 14 (11.5%) | |||
| Pigtail catheter, n (%) | 1 (0.2%) | 0 | 1 (0.8%) | |||
| Other, n (%) | 3 (0.5%) | 2 (0.4%) | 1 (0.8%) | |||
| Speciality of physicians | 0.3 | |||||
| Emergency physician, n (%) | 363 (68.8%) | 285 (68.7%) | 78 (69%) | |||
| Respiratory medicine, n (%) | 56 (10.6%) | 40 (9.6%) | 16 (14.2%) | |||
| Surgeon, n (%) | 46 (8.7%) | 36 (8.7%) | 10 (8.8%) | |||
| Intensive care physician, n (%) | 63 (11.9%) | 54 (13%) | 9 (8%) | |||
| Aspiration (n = 189) | ||||||
| Equipment | 0.58 | |||||
| Needle thoracocentesis, n (%) | 58 (80.6%) | 50 (80.6%) | 8 (80%) | |||
| Catheters, n (%) | 7 (9.7%) | 6 (9.7%) | 1 (20%) | |||
| Other, n (%) | 4 (5.6%) | 4 (6.5%) | 0 | |||
| Pleurocath, n (%) | 3 (4.2%) | 2 (3.2%) | 0 | |||
| Speciality of physicians | 0.12 | |||||
| Emergency physician, n (%) | 115 (79.9%) | 94 (81%) | 21 (75%) | |||
| Respiratory medicine, n (%) | 17 (11.8%) | 11 (9.5%) | 6 (21.4%) | |||
| Surgeon, n (%) | 9 (6.3%) | 9 (7.8%) | 0 | |||
| Intensive care physician, n (%) | 3 (2.1%) | 2 (1.7%) | 0 | |||
SP spontaneous pneumothorax
PSP primary spontaneous pneumothorax
SSP secondary spontaneous pneumothorax
*122 patients excluded from analysis because randomised in the EXPRED study