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Active clearance vs conventional management of chest tubes after cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled study

BACKGROUND: Chest tubes are routinely used after cardiac surgery to evacuate shed mediastinal blood. Incomplete chest drainage due to chest tube clogging can lead to retained blood after cardiac surgery. This can include cardiac tamponade, hemothorax, bloody effusions and postoperative atrial fibril...

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Autores principales: St-Onge, Samuel, Chauvette, Vincent, Hamad, Raphael, Bouchard, Denis, Jeanmart, Hugues, Lamarche, Yoan, Perrault, Louis P., Demers, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7986555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33757537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-021-01414-0