Vascular surgeon Dr Samantha Peden told the Australian News broadcaster that the patient’s aortic arch had ballooned to ...

An important patient consideration is the type of device being secured; different products may be better suited for securing critical devices such as endotracheal tubes, vascular access devices ...

Securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance in 2010, PleuraFlow ensures that chest tubes are unobstructed in adult cardiac surgery patients and that blood or fluid has been ...

Conducted from January 2020 to August 2023 at Franciscan Health Indianapolis, this pragmatic, prospective observational study included 1,334 adult cardiac surgery patients. The control group (650 ...

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 ...

Keywords: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS); lobectomy; postoperative pain; chest tube; analgesia Highlight box Key findings • Patients with coaxial silicone (SIL) drains demonstrated lower ...

The chest tube is removed after lung expansion (clinical and radiological) and a output of less than 150ml/24h. After removal, the patient undergoes a new chest X-ray in 12 hours.

Conclusions: For patients with prolonged air leaks, additional chest tube placement postoperatively significantly reduces both hospitals stay duration and chest tube indwelling time compared to ...

We present the case of a patient with advanced lung cancer who initially experienced breathlessness and right-sided chest pain. A chest X-ray revealed a large right-sided pneumothorax, for which a ...