Postoperative Outpatient Chest Tube Management: Initial Experience With a New Portable System

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 630-632

  Rieger, Karen M ^a   Wroblewski, Heather A ^a   Brooks, Jo Ann ^a   Hammoud, Zane T ^a   Kesler, Kenneth A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; COST; DEVICE; DRAIN; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX SURGERY; TUBE; TUBE REMOVAL;

CHEST TUBES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; OUTPATIENTS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SELF CARE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34447566024     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.02.059     Document Type: Article

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