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.

Peer-reviewed clinical study shows Thoraguard® delivers effective, automated chest tube drainage following cardiac surgery Featured Image for Centese, Inc Featured Image for Centese, Inc OMAHA ...

Patients who underwent a pulmonary lobectomy had their chest tube removed earlier and spent less time in the hospital with a digital vs. analog air leak detection device, according to results ...

For the first day or so, a chest tube is left in to help adhere the once deflated lung to the chest wall (pleural symphysis). The tube will be removed if no leak is apparent, and the patient will be ...

Improved Patient–Provider Communication. Members of the Trauma Survivors Network, a national advocacy organization for trauma survivors and their families, watched the simulation exercises ...

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 chest radiograph showed pulmonary vascular congestion over the entire right lung with both chest tubes in situ, consistent with re-expansion pulmonary edema . We started noninvasive ventilation with ...

image: Left: Chest radiograph from 80-year-old patient in sample A. AI identified endotracheal tube (ETT) with probability score of 0.98, and properly localized tip of ETT (solid arrow).