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pleural space.[citation needed] Two different principles are used in chest drainage management: The Heber-Drain principle and the Bülau-Drain principle...

which often involves a flutter valve or underwater seal. The concept of chest drainage was first advocated by Hippocrates when he described the treatment of...

A chest injury, also known as chest trauma, is any form of physical injury to the chest including the ribs, heart and lungs. Chest injuries account for...

fluid, in only one direction along the drainage tube. The end of the drainage tube is placed inside the chest cavity of the patient — into the air mass...

A thoracostomy is a small incision of the chest wall, with maintenance of the opening for drainage. It is most commonly used for the treatment of a pneumothorax...

Okumura, Meinoshin (June 2018). "Air leak pattern shown by digital chest drainage system predict prolonged air leakage after pulmonary resection for patients...

Pleurodesis involves the drainage of all the fluid out of the chest through a chest tube. A substance is inserted through the chest tube into the pleural...

Postural drainage is often used in conjunction with a technique for loosening secretions in the chest cavity such as chest percussion. Chest percussion...

removed with a syringe or a chest tube connected to a one-way valve system. Occasionally, surgery may be required if tube drainage is unsuccessful, or as a...

trauma and becomes detached from the rest of the chest wall. Two of the symptoms of flail chest are chest pain and shortness of breath. It occurs when multiple...

Chest physiotherapy (CPT) are treatments generally performed by physical therapists and respiratory therapists, whereby breathing is improved by the indirect...

of blood is present in the drainage; it is pink in color due to the presence of red blood cells mixed with serous drainage. This is a normal part of the...

ISSN 1558-5069. PMID 27865326. Baringer, Kristina; Talbert, Steve (2017). "Chest drainage systems and management of air leaks after a pulmonary resection". Journal...

it was used successfully on patients. In 1962, Heimlich invented the chest drainage flutter valve (also called the Heimlich valve), and was granted a patent...

protein deficiency Traumatic: penetrating or blunt chest trauma, aortic dissection Reduced lymphatic drainage: congestive heart failure, nephrotic syndrome...

rib cage; thus, the breasts cover much of the chest area and the chest walls. At the front of the chest, the breast tissue can extend from the clavicle...

MRSA or Staphylococcus infection: vancomycin or linezolid postural drainage and chest physiotherapy bronchoscopy is used for the following cases: aspiration...

of chest tube drainage is monitored. If the drainage volume drops off, and the blood pressure goes down, this can suggest a tamponade due to chest tube...

autogenic drainage is better than other airway clearance techniques. Chest physiotherapy is a manual airway clearance therapy that uses chest percussion...

of people require surgical drainage of the infected pleural space because of inadequate drainage due to clogging of the chest tube or loculated empyema...