Thoracostomy tubes work by draining air or fluid from the chest cavity, and are most commonly used to treat pneumothorax or pleural effusion. Generally, a unilateral thoracostomy tube is ...

This can cause fluid to collect in the space (pleural effusion). Or it can cause the ... straight away if you have shortness of breath or chest pain. Your doctor might need to drain the fluid or put a ...

Radioactive gold has found its greatest success and widest application, however, in the attempt to eliminate the intractable formation of fluid in the pleural and peritoneal cavities in ...

Step 7: Intraoperative Endoscopy The esophageal stethoscope and the orogastric tube are removed ... The characteristic signals are chest pain, fever, and a pleural effusion on the chest x-ray.

A nasal tube was passed immediately ... Fluid is present in the left pleural cavity. With the presence of an increasing amount of fluid in the left side of the chest and disappearance of the ...

Re-expansion Pulmonary oedema (RPE) is a rare but potentially fatal complication, which can arise after a rapid decompressive treatment of pulmonary collapse secondary to pleural effusion ... and ...

Two doors down the hall, a trauma patient clutching their dislocated shoulder hobbles in; before the X-ray team arrives, the ...

Chest radiograph confirmed persistent bilateral pleural effusions. After withholding his heparin infusion ... Chest radiograph confirmed adequate siting of the endotracheal tube (ETT) and left-sided ...

The following is a summary of “Ultrasound analysis of hemidiaphragm function in case of pleural effusion,” published in the January 2025 issue of Pulmonology by Boussuges et al. Researchers conducted ...