Safe insertion, maintenance and removal of chest tube: what every health-care professional must knowdoi:10.4103/ijcn.ijcn_55_22Tiwari, NehaPulle, MohanKumar, ArvindIndian Journal of Continuing Nursing Education
Maintenance of chest tube patency to prevent retained blood is recommended B–nonrandomized studies/class I Stripping or breaking the sterile field of chest tubes to remove clots is not recommended A/class III (no benefit) ERAS Cardiac Society and ESTS joint recommendations Routine external suction ...
A balanced workout– doing agonist/antagonist or push-pull supersets ensures that you do an equal number of sets for opposing muscle groups, e.g., biceps and triceps, quadriceps and hamstrings, and chest and back. This helps ensure that both muscles are equally well developed, which is impo...
resuscitation also may include defibrillation therapy. The term basic life support (BLS) involves all the following elements: initial assessment; airway maintenance; expired air ventilation (rescue breathing); and chest compression. When all three (airway breathing, and circulation, including chest compre...
A few helpful hints when performing your routine maintenance: Be sure not to cut nails below the nail bed or pull on hangnails, which should be clipped, not chewed -- either can open the door to bacterial, fungal and viral infections (warts). And don't dig out an ingrown toenail -- ...
A few helpful hints when performing your routine maintenance: Be sure not to cut nails below the nail bed or pull on hangnails, which should be clipped, not chewed -- either can open the door to bacterial, fungal and viral infections (warts). And don't dig out an ingrown toenail -- ...
chest tube and its treatment Explain the importance of drainage monitoring Discuss what should be observed for in the drainage State the procedure to reestablish chest tube patency Discuss the four primary functions of a chest tube Discuss the proper maintenance of chest tubes Explain the ...
Anti‐clogging mechanisms of a motion‐activated chest tube patency maintenance system: Histology and high‐speed camera assessmentbleedingchest tubecoagulationfibrin depositionhemothoraxhigh-speed imagingmotion-activated systemThe motion-activated system (MAS) employs vibration to prevent intraluminal chest tube...
Methods The chest tube clogging was tested (MAS vs. control) in acute hemothorax porcine models (n=5). The whole tubes with blood clots were fixed with formalin゛cetic acid solution and cut into cross﹕ections, proceeded for H&E stained paraffin〆mbedded tissue sections (MAS sections, n=...