Adherence to prehospital thoracostomy practice guidelines for traumatic cardiac arrest: A retrospective study [PDF]
Resuscitation PlusObjectives: The management of traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) focuses on the immediate treatment of reversible causes, including bilateral thoracostomy. In our prehospital emergency service, bilateral thoracostomy has been recommended since 2012 for the ...
Nicolas Beysard +7 more
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Tube Thoracostomy: Complications and Its Management [PDF]
Pulmonary Medicine, 2012 Background. Tube thoracostomy is widely used throughout the medical, surgical, and critical care specialities. It is generally used to drain pleural collections either as elective or emergency.
Emeka B. Kesieme +5 more
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Management and outcomes of traumatic hemothorax in children [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Adult guidelines for the management of traumatic hemothorax are well established; however, there have been no similar studies conducted in the pediatric population.
Choi, Pamela M +3 more
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The Sound of Safety: DIVOT (Doppler Imaging for Vascular Orientation in Thoracic Procedures) Protocol [PDF]
POCUS JournalEach year, more than 200,000 thoracentesis and percutaneous chest tube thoracostomy procedures are performed in the United States [1-4]. In both procedures, the initial step involves advancing a needle over the superior aspect of the rib into the ...
Amy Fraser +6 more
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Comparison of outcome between sole operation and operation after tube thoracostomy in late phase empyema [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEmpyema is a severe and potentially life-threatening condition characterized by infection in the pleural cavity with pus collection. Treatment options include antibiotics, tube thoracostomy, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) decortication, or open ...
Shao-Syuan Tong +7 more
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Prospective comparative study of video assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus conventional thoracostomy drainage in emyema thoracis in paediatric age group [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Approximately 1.2 million people per year are affected by pneumonia in the United States. In paediatric patients, thoracis empyema complicates pneumonia 36% to 57% of the time with a range of incidence between 0.4 and 6.0 cases per 1000 ...
Nirala, Sukh Lal +2 more
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Rates of PCR Positivity of Pleural Drainage Fluid in COVID-19 Patients: Is It Expected? [PDF]
LifeBackground: Tube thoracostomy, utilized through conventional methodologies in the context of pleural disorders such as pleural effusion and pneumothorax, constitutes one of the primary therapeutic interventions. Nonetheless, it is imperative to recognize
Hasan Turut +8 more
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Re-expansion Pulmonary Edema in a patient with Secondary Spontaneous Pneumothorax Following Closed Thoracostomy: A Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Medicine and Life Science, 2021 Although re-expansion pulmonary edema (RPE) is rare (incidence rate 20%; therefore, early diagnosis and treatment are important. We report a case of RPE following chest tube insertion in a patient with spontaneous pneumothorax.
Seon Woo Oh, Su Wan Kim
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Bilateral tension pneumothoraces in a preterm low-birthweight newborn: tube thoracostomy using four 7-French latex catheters performed by an emergency physician [PDF]
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, 2023 Neonatal tension pneumothorax is life-threatening. A tension pneumothorax on the right side was detected on a newborn boy weighing 2,380 g, who was born at 35 weeks of gestation.
Minsu Kim +3 more
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PLASTY OF A LARGE THROUGH THORACIC WALL DEFECT WITH THE HELP OF VRAM-FLAP: A CLINICAL CASE
Juvenis Scientia, 2022 At present, there is a fairly large number of surgical interventions, both open and video-assisted thoracoscopic, on the chest organs in oncopathology and pulmonary tuberculosis, as well as in various pyoinflammatory and nonspecific diseases of the lungs
V. G. Zolotykh +8 more
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