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This book covers all aspects of successfully treating patients using chest drains, beginning with anatomy and ending with physiotherapy and pain management. The aim of the book is to provide medical professionals with a step-by-step guide to using a chest drain, with specific chapters on indications, kinds of chest drains, catheters, drainage systems, how to insert a chest tube, complications during placement and handling of a chest drain, removing a chest drain, management of the  pleural space and post-procedural care. Unlike general thoracic surgery textbooks, this book gives a complete overview of chest drains in clinical practice to ensure the best possible care of patients.  

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9783319323381

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Chest Drains in Daily Clinical Practice is a useful primer in the use and management of intercostal chest drains. The book covers the major concerns of practitioners dealing with chest drains - the anatomy, physiology and indications for drainage of the pleural space. The book goes on to cover a number of aspects of the management of chest drains, including common problems encountered in patients who have a chest drain in situ. ... Overall, a useful primer, with a surgical flavour. (Toby Hillman, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol. 78 (10), October, 2017)

“Chest Drains in Daily Clinical Practice is a useful primer in the use and management of intercostal chest drains. The book covers the major concerns of practitioners dealing with chest drains – the anatomy, physiology and indications for drainage of the pleural space. The book goes on to cover a number of aspects of the management of chest drains, including common problems encountered in patients who have a chest drain in situ. … Overall, a useful primer, with a surgical flavour.” (Toby Hillman, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol. 78 (10), October, 2017)

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Thomas Kiefer Head of Department for Thoracic Surgery Lunge Center Bodensee Klinikum Konstanz Konstanz, Germany

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