The drainage kit used in the video is equipped with an 8-French flexible pigtail catheter, a metal stiffening cannula, ... such as insertion of a chest tube or surgical revision.

Improving drainage by maintaining chest tube patency has been shown to improve patient outcomes reducing the incidence of common complications such as Pleural, Pericardial Effusions and New Onset ...

Peer-reviewed clinical study shows Thoraguard® delivers effective, automated chest tube drainage following cardiac surgery Featured Image for Centese, Inc Featured Image for Centese, Inc OMAHA ...

Tube thoracostomy is a minimally invasive procedure in which a drainage catheter is placed percutaneously into the pleural space. Equipment consists of a sterile set of instruments, local ...

Chest tube clearance system demonstrates value in cardiac surgery study ClearFlow received FDA approval for its PleuraView system in 2010. Image credit: sweet_tomato via Shutterstock.

using a drainage time of 3.5 days for Thopaz+ (based on 8 studies) adding the cost of chest drain reinsertion and complications (reinsertion prevalence was calculated as 0.017 from 4 studies) revising ...

A 2-month-old premature infant developed a spontaneous chylothorax. Medical therapy (chest tube drainage, parenteral alimentation) and thoracic duct ligation at 103 days of age had no effect.