A new use of Fogarty catheter: chest tube clearance.

An alternative approach to management of Fogarty catheter disruption associated with endobronchial foreign body extraction.

The Fogarty balloon catheter is a useful adjunct in removing aspirated foreign bodies, but its use is not without risks. A case is presented of Fogarty catheter disruption while attempting to remove a foreign body. The resulting debris in the distal airway was inaccessible to bronchoscopic retrieval. An effective treatment plan is outlined to deal with this problem.

Use of a Fogarty catheter for bronchoscopic removal of a foreign body.

The PleuraFlow Active Chest Tube Clearance System: initial clinical experience in adult cardiac surgery.

OBJECTIVE To address the clinical consequences related to chest tube clogging, a novel chest drainage apparatus, the PleuraFlow Active Tube Clearance System (Clear Catheter Systems, Bend, OR), was developed. The aim of this world's first clinical experience study was to follow clinicians using the PleuraFlow system to assess usability issues and potential areas of improvement in the heart surge...

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    Background and Aim: Chest tube has been used as a close drainage system for evacuation of pleural cavity after thoracic surgery and in traumatic patients.Today, the chest bottles are made from hard and fragile  material that may be broken easily. Also chest bottle needs sterile saline solution for proper functioning. This causes heaviness with pressure effect on the chest wall, resulting in...

Randomized clinical trial of pigtail catheter versus chest tube in injured patients with uncomplicated traumatic pneumothorax.

BACKGROUND Small pigtail catheters appear to work as well as the traditional large-bore chest tubes in patients with traumatic pneumothorax, but it is not known whether the smaller pigtail catheters are associated with less tube-site pain. This study was conducted to compare tube-site pain following pigtail catheter or chest tube insertion in patients with uncomplicated traumatic pneumothorax. ...