gastric tube operation, which allowed people who had lost their ability to swallow to again eat normally. A decade later, he invented the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve which saved the lives of thousands of soldiers in the Vietnam War and is commonly used today for patients undergoing chest ...
The Heimlich chest drainage valve was developed so that the process of draining the pleural cavity could be accomplished in a safe, relatively simple, and efficient manner. Replacing the cumbersome underwater drainage bottle system, the Heimlich valve connects to chest tubing and allows fluid and ai...
Heimlich was proud of some of his other innovations, such as a chest drain valve credited by some with saving soldiers and civilians during the Vietnam War. But he drew sharp criticism for his theory that injecting patients with a curable form of malaria could trigger immunity in patients with...
Heimlich was proud of some of his other innovations, such as a chest drain valve credited by some with saving soldiers and civilians during the Vietnam War. But he drew sharp criticism for his theory that injecting patients with a curable form of malaria could trigger immunity in patients with...
In 1963, he created a chest drainage flutter valve that allows air and blood to drain from a collapsed lung. Family Life His parents were Philip and Mary Heimlich. He married Jane Heimlich and he had two sons and two daughters. Associated With He was the uncle of actor Anson Williams who...
Aim To determine if an early discharge radiology-led percutaneous lung biopsy (PLB) service, incorporating ambulatory outpatient small calibre Heimlich valve chest drain (HVCD) to treat pneumothorax, is potentially safe and advantageous to the NHS. Methods A prospective study of 489 consecutive ...
Our retrospective single-centre analysis of 212 patients undergoing PLB, all performed prospectively and blinded to lung function, demonstrates that using ambulatory Heimlich valve chest drain (HVCD) to treat significant postbiopsy pneumothorax facilitates safe, diagnostic, early discharge lung biopsy ...
Some of the patients had anxiety because of discharging with a chest drain (n=21), but only 5 of them had problems with the system and wound care. Eigthy percent of the patients thought that the aim of the system is "to make them more comfortable at their home and shorten the lenght...
WHY IS THE HEIMLICH CHEST DRAIN VALVE MAKING A COMEBACK?LAZZARA, DEBORAHNursing2021