Background: Timing of chest tube removal in trauma patients is debatable. This study aimed to assess whether protocolized early thoracostomy tube (TT) removal is associated with better outcomes.

Reduction in chest tube clogging and take back for bleeding shown in randomized prospective clinical trial with PleuraFlow ACT System March 30, 2021 12:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time ...

ClearFlow’s PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology demonstrated a 64% reduction in ICU readmissions.

Conditional logistic regression was used to compare the likelihood of complications and death between chest tube placement groups. Four thousand two hundred and sixteen trauma patients had a chest ...

Spontaneous pneumothorax, or collapsed lung absent a trauma-related cause, necessitated the placement of chest tubes in a 25-year-old male patient who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), with ...

MyChart is a patient-accessible website that enables you to interact with your Baylor Medicine healthcare team. Login. Lung ... arterial lines, and Foley catheters will be removed based on daily team ...

A 42-year-old hospital patient who went missing from a Nottingham hospital with a tube attached to his chest has been found, police have said. David Evans left Nottingham City Hospital in Sherwood ...