chest tube
Sign in to saveAlso known as chest drain stitch, chest drain, intercostal drain
type of surgical drain, plastic tubing used for drainage of air or fluid from the pleural space
Research
16,314 papers- Comprehensive Review of Chest Tube Management: A Review.JAMA surgery · 2022
- Chest Tube Drainage Devices.Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine · 2019
- Outcomes of Pigtail Catheter Placement versus Chest Tube Placement in Adult Thoracic Trauma Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The American surgeon · 2023
- Chest Tube Management: Past, Present, and Future Directions for Developing Evidence-Based Best Practices.Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2023
- When to Remove a Chest Tube.Thoracic surgery clinics · 2017
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- drainage
- Image
- Cross-section Blake Drain.jpg
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- Commons category
- Chest tube
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- Chest drain
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C122599
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