What size chest tube? What drainage system is ideal? And other chest tube management questions

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 276-281

  Baumann, Michael H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest tube; Pleural drainage unit

Indexed keywords

BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; DEVICE; DRAIN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; PNEUMOTHORAX; REVIEW; TUBE;

CHEST TUBES; HUMANS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; SUCTION;

EID: 0037662818     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00063198-200307000-00006     Document Type: Review

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