Less pain with flexible fluted silicone chest drains than with conventional rigid chest tubes after cardiac surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1027-1028

  Akowuah, Enoch ^a   Ho, Eu Chin ^a   George, Rina ^a   Brennan, Karl ^a   Tennant, Sue ^a   Braidley, Peter ^a   Cooper, Graham ^a  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROCODEINE; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; SILICON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 0036828935     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.125641     Document Type: Article

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