introduction: transhiatal esophagectomy is a widely accepted approach for palliative resection of subcarinal esophageal cancers. this study was designed to evaluate the necessity of routine thoracostomy tube insertion in this technique.  methods: this descriptive study was conducted on 123 consecutive patients with esophageal cancers undergoing transhiatal esophagectomy from march 2001 to febru...

Background: It was aimed to retrospectively examine the data of patients who underwent catheter thoracostomy determine their demographic and clinical characteristics evaluate effectiveness procedure.Materials Methods: We evaluated 613 procedures performed at Health Practice Research Center between January 1, 2013 December 31, 2017.Results: Five hundred sixty-seven (92.5%) were unilateral 46 (7....

BACKGROUND It has recently become most general to use the small bore catheter to perform closed thoracostomy in treating iatrogenic pneumothorax. This study was performed for analysis of the efficacy of treatment methods by using small bore catheter such as 7 F (French) central venous catheter, 10 F trocar catheter, 12 F pigtail catheter and for analysis of the appropriateness of each procedure...

OBJECTIVE To assess the complication rate of tube thoracostomy in trauma. To consider whether this rate is high enough to support a selective reduction in the indications for tube thoracostomy in trauma. METHODS A retrospective case series of all trauma patients who underwent tube thoracostomy during a 12 month period at a large UK teaching hospital with an accident and emergency (A&E) depart...

Introduction: Tube thoracostomy is an invasive procedure, which may result in life-threatening injury to major organs and blood vessels. We propose a new approach for inserting tube thoracostomies to improve the safety of this procedure, termed guided blunt dissection. In this article, we compared the safety of this new approach with traditional blunt dissection and two commercially available S...

background: pneumothorax is common and life-threatening clinical condition which may require emergency treatment in emergency medicine departments. objectives: we aimed to reveal the epidemiological analysis of the patients admitted to the emergency department with pneumothorax. material and methods: this case-control and multi-center study was conducted in the patients treated with the diagnos...