Postoperative chest tube management: measuring air leak using an electronic device decreases variability in the clinical practice☆☆☆ | Zendy

Gonzálo Varela | Zendy; Marcelo F. Jiménez | Zendy; Nuria M. Novoa | Zendy; José Luis Aranda | Zendy

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Postoperative chest tube management: measuring air leak using an electronic device decreases variability in the clinical practice☆☆☆

Author(s) -

Gonzálo Varela,

Marcelo F. Jiménez,

Nuria M. Novoa,

José Luis Aranda

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.09.005

Subject(s) - medicine , chest tube , cohen's kappa , kappa , leak , surgery , nuclear medicine , pneumothorax , statistics , linguistics , philosophy , environmental engineering , engineering , mathematics

Since there are no data in the literature regarding variability in the management of postoperative pleural drainages, we have designed a prospective randomized study aimed at measuring inter-observer variability in deciding when to withdraw chest tubes after lung resection and to evaluate if the use of an electronic device to measure postoperative air leak decreases clinical practice variations.

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