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Early chest tube removal after video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy with serous fluid production up to 500 ml/day

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Submitted by

Joel Dunning

Source

Source Name: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/2/241.abstract

Author(s)

Lars S. Bjerregaard, Katrine Jensen, Rene Horsleben Petersen, and Henrik Jessen Hansen

The authors removed chest tubes after video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy with serous fluid production up to 500 ml/day in 622 patients. Of them, 17 (2,8%) needed reinterventions due to recurrent pleural effusion. There was no association to the postoperative day of tube removal.