Chest tube removal: End-inspiration or end-expiration?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 674-677

  Bell, Robert L ^a   Ovadia, Philip ^b   Abdullah, Fizan ^a   Spector, Seth ^a   Rabinovici, Reuven ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expiration; Inspiration; Pneumothorax; Tube thoracostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE;

EID: 0035061360     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200104000-00013     Document Type: Article

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