Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, No. 2, Yude Road, Taichung, 404, Taiwan.
School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Department of Thoracic Oncology, Pleural Diseases and Interventional Pulmonology Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France.
Department of Thoracic Oncology, Pleural Diseases and Interventional Pulmonology Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France.
Department of Thoracic Oncology, Pleural Diseases and Interventional Pulmonology Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France.
Department of Thoracic Oncology, Pleural Diseases and Interventional Pulmonology Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France; Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
Draining the chest cavity with 2 tubes is a common practice among thoracic surgeons. This research was conducted in Addis Ababa from March 2021 to May 2022. A total of 62 patients were included....
This study was conducted to investigate the superiority of either single or double tube insertion after decortication. Patients were randomized in a ratio of 1:1. In group A, 2 tubes were inserted; in...
The age range of patients was 18 to 70 years, with a mean of 44 ± 14.4434 years; the male to female ratio was 2.9:1. The dominant underlying pathologies were tuberculosis and trauma (45.2% vs 35.5%); ...
The placement of a single tube after decortication is effective in reducing drain output, time of drain, and hospital stay. There was no association with pain, and there was no effect on other endpoin...
The lack of chest tube maintenance and management knowledge in nurses can lead to serious adverse consequences. The purpose of this study was to develop a chest tube maintenance and management knowled...
Based on literature review and expert consultation, a questionnaire on chest tube maintenance and management knowledge of clinical nurses was designed, and the reliability and validity of the question...
The initial questionnaire of chest tube maintenance and management knowledge for clinical nurses included 20 items, and three dimensions were finally determined by expert consultation method, includin...
The clinical nurses' knowledge questionnaire developed in this study has good reliability and validity, which can effectively and objectively evaluate clinical nurses' mastery of chest tube maintenanc...
Chest tube placement and subsequent removal is a routine step in patient management after cardiovascular surgery. The purpose of this retrospective study is to determine the necessity of routine chest...
We retrospectively reviewed the hospital records of all consecutive children up to 5 years of age who had cardiovascular surgery at our hospital between January 2015 and December 2020. Two radiologist...
We identified 147 children (73 [49.7%] male and 74 [50.3%] female; mean age=13.8 mo old; range 0 to 60 mo) who met the inclusion criteria. Complications were detected on routine chest radiograph after...
Our study shows that routine chest radiograph performed shortly after chest tube removal may not be necessary for the safe management of asymptomatic children after cardiovascular surgery because comp...
Medical Thoracoscopy (MT) is a diagnostic procedure during which after accessing the pleural space the patient's negative-pressure inspiratory efforts draw atmospheric air into the pleural cavity, whi...
A retrospective review was conducted of all the MT with intraprocedural chest tube removal done between 2019 to 2023 in adult patients in a single center in New York, NY by interventional pulmonology....
A total of 100 MT cases were identified in which the chest tube was removed intra-operatively. Seventy-seven percent of cases were performed as outpatient and all these patients were discharged on the...
Intraprocedural CT removal for MT is safe and may decrease utilization of additional analgesia post procedure. Further prospective studies are necessary to validate these conclusions....
A 67-year-old male with metastatic lung cancer presented with acute shortness of breath and increasing oxygen requirements. He had a decreasing hemoglobin for which he required red blood cell transfus...
A rare and fatal complication of suction drainage of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax is reported. The patient, likely by a mistake, arbitrarily connected the oxygen supply tube to the thoracic drai...
Chest Tube Insertion (CTI) should be trained in simulated settings prior to patient contact. Feedback and certification is based on valid assessments, especially in simulation-based training. This stu...
A diverse European expert panel was invited to participate. In round 1, the experts provided at least five procedural steps and three errors involved in CTI. Round 2 evaluated the level of agreement w...
Thirty-six of 105 (34%) invited surgeons (26/75, 35%), pulmonologists (8/23, 35%) and emergency physicians (2/7, 29%) participated. The overall response rate was 81% (29/36): 100% (36/36) in round 1, ...
A multidisciplinary expert panel achieved consensus in the development of the ACTION (Assessment of Competence in Chest Tube Insertion) tool. This procedure-specific rating scale of 17 steps, suppleme...
Pleural drainage is a routine procedure conducted after thoracotomy and thoracoscopy. It is used to remove air or excess fluid from a pleural cavity and enables proper lung expansion. Essential elemen...
This study aimed to explore patients' experiences with pleural drainage after thoracic surgery and their correlation with socio-demographic data....
A pilot survey with an exploratory design was conducted at a large teaching hospital in Poland, in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the University Clinical Centre in Gdansk. The study involved th...
Individuals fitted with a traditional water-seal drainage system felt safer than those from the digital drainage group (...
Demographic and social characteristics did not significantly affect patients' sense of safety with chest drainage types. Patients with traditional drainage felt significantly safer than patients with ...
Pleural drainage following lung resection is almost universally practiced in pediatric surgery, but its necessity has been questioned in adult literature. We performed a cross-sectional study of pedia...
Retrospective chart review of patients <21 years of age undergoing pulmonary lobectomy or wedge resection at an academic children's hospital from 2013 to 2022. Variables regarding demographics and pos...
130 procedures meet inclusion criteria: 59 lobectomies (group 1), 19 diagnostic wedges (group 2), and 52 excisional wedges (group 3). 74.6% of group 1 patients had no air leak, and median CT duration ...
CT duration following lung resection in pediatric patients is typically brief, with most patients having no air leak and CT removal within 2 days of surgery. Obligatory CT drainage may not be necessar...
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Early water seal following minimally invasive pulmonary lobectomy has been shown to reduce chest tube duration and postoperative length of stay (LOS). We evaluated chest tube duration and postoperativ...
We identified adult patients undergoing VATS pleurodesis from August 2013 to December 2021. The chest tube protocol was changed in January 2017 such that patients were placed to water seal on the morn...
A total of 488 patients underwent VATS pleurodesis during the study period (Group 1: 329 patients; Group 2: 159 patients). The median age was 61 y (interquartile range [IQR] 49-68), 51% were females, ...
Development of a standardized protocol to water seal chest tubes on postoperative day 1 following VATS pleurodesis is associated with reduced chest tube duration and LOS without an increase in postope...
