Randomized trial of digital versus analog pleural drainage in patients with or without a pulmonary air leak after lung resection

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1243-1251

  Gilbert, Sebastien ^a,b   McGuire, Anna L ^c   Maghera, Sonam ^d   Sundaresan, Sudhir R ^a   Seely, Andrew J ^a,b   Maziak, Donna E ^a   Shamji, Farid M ^a   Villeneuve, P James ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

chest tubes; drainage; humans; length of stay; pleura; prospective study; randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEST TUBE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURAL DRAINAGE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY AIR LEAK; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEALANT; STRATIFICATION; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; DRAINAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTUBATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AIRWAY EXTUBATION; CHEST TUBES; DRAINAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84948719972     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.08.051     Document Type: Article

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