Sentence examples for bore chest from inspiring English sources

Conclusions: In this study, we revealed improvement of respiratory rate and PaO2 after effusion drainage via small bore chest tube in the patients under MV treatment.

Small bore chest tubes excluded.

The technique we have described is a cheaper and less traumatic alternative to the use of bigger bore chest tubes.

On hospital day six, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) with decortication of necrotic tissue was performed along with placement of two large bore chest tubes.

After a thoracentesis, he was found to have a pneumothorax and a small bore chest tube was placed by interventional radiology without subsequent re-expansion of the lung.

In two cases the pneumothorax was aspirated on the CT table and did not recur; in the other case a small bore chest drain was inserted for 5 days.

The last decade has seen greater implementation of real-time imaging assistance for pleural effusion management and increasing use of smaller bore percutaneous chest tubes.

The chest bore the claw marks.

Fifty patients (72.5%) undergoing the pigtail drainage and 16 (72.7%) undergoing large-bore chest tube treatment of SSP were successfully treated (P =.88).

It is still uncertain if large-bore chest tubes 20F-28FF) isuperioror to pigtail catheter 10F-14FF) in terms of the management of secondary spontaneous pneumothoraces (SSP .This study was designed to compare the efficacy and safety associated with placement of large-bore chest tubes vs pigtail catheters in adults experiencing the first episode of SSP.

Pigtail catheters offer a safe and effective alternative for large-bore chest tubes to adult patients experiencing the first episode of SSP, and we strongly suggested that pigtail tube drainage should be considered as the initial treatment of choice.