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Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2018 Thoracostomy is a common treatment option for patients with stage III pleural empyema who do not tolerate pulmonary decortication. However, thoracostomy is considered mutilating because it involves a thoracic stoma, the closure of which can take years or
Paulo Manuel Pêgo-Fernandes +5 more
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Tube Thoracostomy: Complications and Its Management
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.
Ndubueze Ezemba +5 more
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Serratus Anterior Plane Block for Procedural Anesthesia for Pigtail Tube Thoracostomy: A Case Series [PDF]
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency MedicineIntroduction: Pneumothoraces are frequently treated by emergency physicians. Tube thoracostomy, the definitive treatment for a spontaneous pneumothorax, is associated with significant pain.
Lopez, Edward +3 more
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Resuscitation PlusThe 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 management of
Beysard, N. +7 more
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Animals, 2022 First-line therapy for cats with pyothorax consists of intravenous antibiotics, drainage of the septic pleural effusion and closed-chest lavage. Large-bore thoracostomy tubes are traditionally used for drainage, but case series indicate a comparable ...
Gabriel Wurtinger +3 more
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, 2018 There are few technical skills that surpass in value the performance of tube thoracostomy. Throughout the career life span of the physician, probability dictates that at least one patient will be encountered who will require pleural drainage.
Matthew R. Rosengart
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Trauma Surgery & Acute Care OpenObjectives Percutaneously placed small-bore (14 Fr) catheters and pleural lavage have emerged independently as innovative approaches to hemothorax management.
Jeremy W Cannon +8 more
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Outcome of tube thoracostomy in paediatric non-traumatic pleural fluid collections
African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2013 Objective: Management of pleural fluid collection not due to trauma increases workload of the paediatric thoracic surgeons, while delay or inappropriate treatment worsens the prognosis of the disease.
Eyo E Ekpe, M U Akpan
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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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