Brief reportComplication rates of tube thoracostomy☆
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Chest tube thoracostomy: A simple life-saving procedure with potential hazardous risks
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2021, American Journal of SurgeryComplications Associated With Placement of Chest Tubes: A Trauma System Perspective
2019, Journal of Surgical ResearchCitation Excerpt :Studies have shown that nonsurgical residents and insertion outside of the trauma bay were predictive of complications. Other studies have also demonstrated that complication rates of tube placement were lower in the operating room than the emergency room, and both the operating room and emergency room were significantly lower than in the inpatient wards.6 The purpose of this study was to evaluate complications of chest tube placement in a level 1 trauma center compared with those placed in surrounding referral hospitals, with a view to evaluating opportunities for improving the care of patients with thoracic trauma at a system level.
Emergency Medical Services Simple Thoracostomy for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: Postimplementation Experience in a Ground-based Suburban/Rural Emergency Medical Services Agency
2018, Journal of Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :What is clear is that both approaches have significant failure rates and issues related to misplacement and iatrogenic injury (13–24). Given the problematic nature of needle decompression, tube thoracostomy has clear advantages but has reported complication rates ranging from 3–30% (25–29). Given the austere environments of prehospital medicine and the complication rate of tube thoracostomy, simple or finger thoracostomy may represent the most rational approach to thoracostomy in the prehospital setting.
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Presented at SAEM Research Forum, May, 1995, San Antonio, TX.