A 64-year-old patient who went to the hospital complaining of back pain and fever has died after doctors pulled a 7.8-inch blood clot in the shape of a bronchial tube from his lungs. While it wasn’t ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monitoring patients via a digital air leak detection device meant they spent less time with a chest tube and in ...

A pre-clinical evaluation of a self-clearing chest tube developed by Clear Catheter Systems Inc. has demonstrated the tube that clears itself works better to drain the chest after surgery than a ...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive procedure that doctors use to diagnose and treat chest conditions. During a VATS procedure, a surgeon inserts a thin tube with a ...