Background: Chest drains are routinely used after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lung resections to evacuate fluid and air from the ...

Some 'alternate-level-of-care' patients the government wants out of hospitals are bedbound with feeding tubes, gaping wounds ...

Discover the telltale signs that distinguish allergic bronchitis from regular allergies, and effective treatments when this ...

To diagnose lung cancer and determine the optimal treatment strategy, physicians typically rely on tissue examination. However, taking biopsies is ...

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they ...

She was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis – an inherited condition that causes mucus buildup in the lungs, and often leads to ...

Patients with narrowing ... causing chest pain and shortness of breath. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI, also known as coronary angioplasty) is a minimally invasive procedure in which tiny ...

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Heparin is cheap and essential to millions of hospitalized people. Tariffs could disrupt the supply chain that gets ...

From the patient's vertex, looking downward at his chest, the operator extends the ... without the use of an endotracheal tube. Our data demonstrate that obstruction of the pharynx in the ...

Leelamma Lal, the nurse severely beaten by a patient last month ... a Wellington man who came to Palms West complaining of chest pain and who later was evaluated for mental-health issues as ...