Troubleshooting chest tube complications: How to prevent - Or quickly correct - The major problems

Journal of Critical Illness

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 275-280

  Deshpande, Kedar S ^a   Tortolani, Anthony J ^a   Kvetan, Vladimir ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical conclusions; Reported complications; The pleural drainage system

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; BLEEDING; CHEST TUBE INSERTION; DRAIN; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE;

EID: 0038800054     PISSN: 10400257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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