The insertion of a chest tube is a common procedure in trauma care, and the Advanced Trauma Life Support program teaches the insertion of chest tubes as an essential and life-saving skill. The purpose ...

A pre-clinical evaluation of a self-clearing chest tube developed by Clear Catheter Systems Inc. has demonstrated the tube that clears itself works better to drain the chest after surgery than a ...

When removing a chest tube, first stack a Xeroform Petrolatum gauze dressing on a nonadhesive dressing. Tape three sides of the dressing over the tube with foam tape. While keeping a fourth piece of ...

IRVINE, Calif., May 20, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClearFlow, Inc., a medical device company based in Irvine, California, announced positive results from a clinical trial published in the peer-reviewed ...

Do you want to change the shape of your body through exercise? Or maybe you’re an athlete who wants to improve your swing or throw. If so, building your chest muscles can help achieve these results.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monitoring patients via a digital air leak detection device meant they spent less time with a chest tube and in ...

How do you open an old locked chest when you don't have a key? Breaking the chest would work, of course, but that isn't an option if the chest is a valued historic artefact. So when curators at a ...

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) refers to the presence of free air in the mediastinum without preceding trauma or ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We looked briefly at why drug studies came ...

Neutropenic complications with carboplatin AUC 5 and paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 (CP) regimen in Indian patients: A community-based single center experience. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ...