Chest Tube Selection in Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery: A Survey of Chest...
A survey of North American cardiothoracic surgeons and specialty cardiac surgery nurses performed to better define problems with current paradigms for chest drainage. The post Chest Tube Selection in...
View ArticleSuperior Chest Drainage with an Active Tube Clearance System: Evaluation of a...
As a followup to the previous study, this preclinical study performed in the laboratories of the Cleveland Clinic compared 20 Fr PleuraFlow® ACT Systems to 32 Fr conventional chest tubes. In another...
View ArticleThe PleuraFlow Active Tube Clearance System Initial Clinical Experience in...
Louis P. Perraut, Michel Pellerin, Michel Carrier, Raymond Cartier, Denis Bouchard, Philippe Demers, Edward M. Boyle. Innovations 2012; 7(5):354-358 This initial clincial experience found found that...
View ArticleThree Practices to Speed Patient Recovery after VAD Implantation
Today, ventricular assist devices (VAD) are routinely used to partially or completely replace the function of a failing heart.(1) While this quantum leap forward is good news for patients with advanced...
View ArticleThe Cardiac Surgery RBC Dilemma
Heart Surgeons are often faced with a dilemma: They put in chest tubes to drain shed blood from around the heart and lungs after heart surgery. This is because all patients bleed for a few hours after...
View ArticleThe Cardiothoracic Surgery Network broadcasts interview with Dr. Marc Gillinov
Joel Dunning from CTSNet talks with Marc Gillinov, cardiac surgeon and Surgical Director of the Center for Atrial Fibrillation at Cleveland Clinic. In this interview, Mr. Dunning and Dr. Gillinov...
View ArticleStudy Demonstrates Concern for Retained Blood Syndrome after Heart Surgery
ClearFlow Executives Comment on New Data Anaheim, CA – March 25, 2015—Cardiac anesthesia investigators from Germany presented data this week at the International Anesthesia Research Society’s (IARS)...
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