Open AccessDoes more than a single chest tube for mediastinal drainage affect outcomes after cardiac surgery?
Author(s) -
Jeffrey Le,
Karen J. Buth,
Gregory M. Hirsch,
JeanFrançois Légaré
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
canadian journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1488-2310
pISSN - 0008-428X
DOI - 10.1503/cjs.006814
Subject(s) - medicine , chest tube , affect (linguistics) , cardiac surgery , drainage , cardiothoracic surgery , radiology , surgery , general surgery , pneumothorax , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , biology
The use of 1 or more mediastinal chest tubes has traditionally been routine for all cardiac surgery procedures to deal with bleeding. However, it remains unproven whether multiple chest tubes offer a benefit over a single chest tube.
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