Hanlon, MaureenLochbaum, LindaElsevier Inc.Journal of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing Official Publication of the Wound Ostomy & Continence Nurses SocietyHanlon M. Patient with a chest tube and Heimlich valve. J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs 2001;28:314-316....
Nineteen patients were treated with the Heimlich flutter valve and 57 patients were treated with the standard drainage tube connected to an underwater seal device. The data were collected from hospital records focusing on the duration of chest drainage, the number of chest roentgenograms and the ...
Manage the airway. Performendotracheal intubationor administer high-flow oxygen by bag-valve-mask. 3. Position the victim on the side to allow water to drain from the mouth. Proper positioning must be balanced with consideration given to an obvious or occult cervical or thoracic spine injury. ...
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 ...
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...
WHY IS THE HEIMLICH CHEST DRAIN VALVE MAKING A COMEBACK?LAZZARA, DEBORAHNursing2021
If the air leak persists more than 10 days, Pezzer catheter with Heimlich valve was carried on instead of standard chest tube system. The patients were discharged with the new system and fallowed at their home. Results: Eight of the patients (80%) were treated with this method without any...
After 2 months the chest tube with Heimlich valve was successfully removed. Recovery was uneventful; long term follow up showed restricted lung function with a total lung capacity of around 78% and fibrotic changes of the right upper lobe on chest CT scan....