BookThomas Kiefer, editor.
Summary: 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. .
Contents:
1. Anatomy of the chest wall and the pleura
2. Physiology and pathophysiology of the pleura
3. Indications for draining the chest
4. Different kinds of drains (-catheters)
5. Different drainage systems and philosophies
6. Inserting a chest drain: how to do
7. Complications of chest drain insertion and management
8. Care of patients having a chest drain
9. Management of the pleural space: handling of chest tubes and drainage systems
10. Pain management in patients with a chest drain
11. Physiotherpy in patients with chest drains
12. Removal of the chest drain: how to do it
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