The insertion of a chest tube is a common procedure in trauma care, and the Advanced Trauma Life Support program teaches the insertion of chest tubes as an essential and life-saving skill. The purpose ...

Trauma patients urgently requiring a breathing tube are more likely to survive if the tube is inserted before arriving at ...

• Early chest tube removal (≤3 days post-insertion) is feasible, and the rates of complications and interventions are comparable to late tube removal. • Management and timing of chest tube removal ...

For trauma patients who require emergent chest decompression, prehospital needle decompression (PHND) was associated with a lower risk of mortality compared with tube thoracostomy, a cohort study ...

Now there is a manikin designed specifically to teach the theory, anatomy and skills needed to manage pre-hospital chest trauma, as well as ongoing chest tube maintenance. The right side of the ...

Pneumothorax is a medical emergency: the collection of air in the pleural space separating the lung from the chest wall, causing it to collapse and resulting in suffocation. Pneumothorax is caused by ...

Gurgaon: Following an internal study that revealed chest injuries account for nearly 70% of poly-trauma admissions in the NCR ...

Researchers are exploring a new generation of biochemical markers that may help clinicians detect myocardial contusion. A frequently overlooked form of heart injury caused by blunt chest trauma, ...

A pre-clinical evaluation of a self-clearing chest tube developed by Clear Catheter Systems Inc. has demonstrated the tube that clears itself works better to drain the chest after surgery than a ...

PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology (ACT; ClearFlow) is a chest drain that incorporates a tube clearance system. It comprises a silicone chest tube and the PleuraFlow clearance apparatus. The ...

Trauma patients urgently requiring a breathing tube are more likely to survive if the tube is inserted before arriving at hospital compared to insertion afterwards, suggests a modelling study led by ...