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Comprehensive Review of Chest Tube Management: A Review.

JAMA Surgery, 2022
Importance Thoracostomy, or chest tube placement, is used in a variety of clinical indications and can be lifesaving in certain circumstances. There have been developments and modifications to thoracostomy tubes, or chest tubes, over time, but they ...
Devon Anderson, Sarah A. Chen, Luis A. Godoy, Lisa Brown, David T. Cooke   +4 more
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Feasibility of early removal of chest tube in the operating room for spontaneous pneumothorax: A prospective randomized controlled study

Asian Journal of Surgery, 2021
Background/Objective: Chest drainage tube after surgery causes pain and prolonged length of hospital stay. Especially, young patients tend to experience greater postoperative pain than elderly patients.
Yo Kawaguchi, Jun Hanaoka, Kazuki Hayashi   +2 more
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Reduced survival in patients requiring chest tubes with COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndromeCentral MessagePerspective

JTCVS Open, 2022
Background: Numerous complications requiring tube thoracostomy have been reported among critically ill patients with COVID-19; however, there has been a lack of evidence regarding outcomes following chest tube placement.
Nicholas W. Rizer, MD, Benjamin Smood, MD, Blake Mergler, MD, Alexandra E. Sperry, MD, Christian A. Bermudez, MD, Jacob T. Gutsche, MD, Asad A. Usman, MD, MPH   +6 more
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Iatrogenic Insertion of Chest Tube inside the Right Pulmonary Artery: Unique, Unheard Complication, and Management

Journal of Medical Sciences and Health, 2021
A 75-year-old male patient referred from a medical college for emergency surgical removal of chest tube from the right pulmonary artery, inserted while treating a right-sided pneumothorax.
Arun Kumar Haridas, Arpan Shah, Umang Shah, Chandrakant Shah, Jayesh Rajpura   +4 more
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Chest tube displacement [PDF]

American Journal of Roentgenology, 1980
The direct and indirect radiographic signs of lobar collapse or atelectasis are well described [1 , 2]. Aside from a local increase in lung opacity, the diagnosis of lobar collapse is often suggested by movement or displacement of normal intrathoracic structures such as the fissures, hila, hemidiaphragms, and the mediastinum or trachea.
Adam F. Petras, David L. Klein
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Active clearance of chest tubes after cardiac surgery: a propensity score matched analysis

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
AIMS OF THE STUDY Chest tubes inserted to drain shed mediastinal blood after cardiac surgery often become clogged, limiting their capacity to evacuate blood, and leading to blood retention and retained blood syndrome.
Vasileios Ntinopoulos, Achim Haeussler, Nestoras Papadopoulos, Dragan Odavic, Patricia Fodor, Daniele Brugnetti, Laura Rings, Stak Dushaj, Omer Dzemali   +8 more
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Application of Two Ultrafine Chest Tube for Drainage after
Pulmonary Uniportal Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery

Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 2021
Background and objective At present, an ultrafine chest tube combined with a traditional thick tube were often used after pulmonary uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (U-VATS).
Lei CHEN, Yongbing CHEN, Xuejie WU, Xing JIN, Xuejuan ZHU   +4 more
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The process and safety of removing chest tubes 4 to 12 hours after robotic pulmonary lobectomy and segmentectomyCentral MessagePerspective

JTCVS Open, 2023
Objective: Chest tubes cause pain and morbidity. Methods: This is a quality initiative study and review of patients who underwent robotic pulmonary resection by 1 surgeon (R.J.C.).
Ashley J. McCormack, MD, Mohamed El Zaeedi, MD, Travis C. Geraci, MD, Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, MBA   +3 more
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Safety of early discharge with a chest tube after pulmonary segmentectomy.

European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2020
OBJECTIVES Early removal of chest tube is an important step in enhanced recovery after surgery protocols. However, after pulmonary resection with a wide dissection plane, such as pulmonary segmentectomy, prolonged air leak, a large volume of pleural ...
F. Bao, N. Dimitrovska, Shoujun Hu, Xiao Chu, Wentao Li   +4 more
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The Right Time for Chest Tube Removal in the Patient with Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review

Archives of Anesthesia and Critical Care, 2021
Background: Chest tube insertion is recommended after cardiac surgery, and inserted annually for a large number of these patients. In addition to its benefits, the chest tube may have risks that are mismanaged.
Abbas Heydari, Zahra Sadat Manzari, Masoud Abdollahi   +2 more
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