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 ...

Intrapleural enzyme therapy (IET) improves outcomes in adult inpatients with complicated parapneumonic pleural effusion or empyema.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monitoring patients via a digital air leak detection device meant they spent less time with a chest tube and in ...

Chest tubes are placed in neonates to evacuate either air (pneumothorax) or fluid (effusion, hemothorax, and empyema) from the pleural or mediastinal space, allowing reexpansion of the lung and ...

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 ...