OBJECTIVE--To examine the management of traumatic pneumothorax in a department where some of these injuries do not receive chest drains. METHODS--A retrospective study of the management of traumatic ...

Chest X-ray confirmed left tension pneumothorax (figure 1). Blood samples showed normal haemogram, coagulation and inflammatory parameters. The patient was then treated with oxygen therapy and ...

Twenty-three patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax and 30 patients with secondary spontaneous pneumothorax treated by intercostal catheter drainage with underwater seal were divided randomly ...

Computed tomography (CT) of the thorax revealed an anterior pneumothorax (fig 2). This was drained under CT guidance by the placement of a chest drain catheter. During the patient’s in hospital stay ...

abnormal collection of air (pneumothorax) or fluid (pleural effusion) or pus (empyema) in the pleural space between the lung and the chest wall. chest tube drainage system stock illustrations ...

10/14 (71.4%) in standard care group had initial management with needle aspiration (as per BTS guidelines); whilst 4 had chest drains inserted. The treatment response was lower in the needle ...

A tension pneumothorax is an immediately ... is better known as the Cook Chest Drain Valve. This one-way air and fluid valve can be used with either a chest tube or an IV needle.

Moreover, there are several thoracic causes, including mechanical ventilation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax.1 We present the case of a man in his 50s who presented ...

of 162 patients in the observational group did not require chest tube drainage and achieved self-sealing given sufficient time. 2 Lung self-sealing was also observed in a series of 93 patients with ...

Sunken lung and administration of pneumothorax Pleural effusion. Treatment of tension hydrothorax Pleural effusion. Diagram showing human silhouette with highlighted lungs, fluid buildup in the pleura ...

A thoracostomy tube is a drain surgically placed ... work by draining air or fluid from the chest cavity, and are most commonly used to treat pneumothorax or pleural effusion.