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  1. Chest Tube Clogging

    We are doing some research on chest tube clogging. Our view is this mostly impacts the ICU nurse taking care of the patient after surgery. We are curious regarding nurses opinions on how often this happens. If you define chest tube clogging by seeing...
  2. Milking chest tubes

    There is a published study on attitudes about chest tube managment and stripping, milking, etc, for chest tube clogging. Its published in the Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2009 Sep-Oct;24(5):503-9. The title is "Chest tube selection in cardiac and th...
  3. chest tube question

    To me it sounds like the chest tube is clogged. Sounds like many of the others agree. The tube is clogged so the fluid is being forced out around it. This means the doctor can try to suction the tube out, or flush it, or more likely, put in a new che...