Portable Chest Drainage Systems and Outpatient Chest Tube Management

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 421-426

  Varela, Gonzalo ^a   Jiménez, Marcelo F ^a   Novoa, Nuria ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambulatory pleural drainage management; Heimlich valve; Postoperative air leak

Indexed keywords

AIR LEAK; AMBULATORY CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PLEURA FLUID; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUBE; VALVE; ALGORITHM; CHEST TUBE; DEVICES; DRAINAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; LUNG RESECTION; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; AMBULATORY CARE; CHEST TUBES; DRAINAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77954359460     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2010.03.006     Document Type: Review

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