Background: Chest drains are routinely used after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lung resections to evacuate fluid and air from the pleural space. We compared the impact of coaxial ...

During the study period, 9,680 subjects had complicated pneumonia. Subjects were excluded if they did not have a pleural drainage procedure (n = 5798), or if thoracentesis was the first pleural fluid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most children with empyema can be treated with chest tube drainage, according to recent study findings published ...

Receiving a lung cancer diagnosis is devastating but learning there is a procedure that is minimally invasive, offers shorter recovery time with less pain and fewer complications, as compared with a ...

For the first time, Max Super Speciality Hospital performed a Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) keyhole surgery of the chest for a collapsed lung on a patient affected from Covid-19 ...

We're an active bunch here in the Northwest. With Seattle and its surroundings consistently ranked among the fittest areas in the country, it's clear that Northwesterners can tough out our infamous ...

Despite the advantages and expanded indications of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, the open surgical approach is commonly preferred for the surgical treatment of rib lesions. Such an approach ...

This multicenter study is the largest to evaluate the management of children hospitalized with complicated pneumonia. We found considerable variation in initial management and outcomes across ...