1                          Small-bore-catheter thoracostomy and talc pleurodesis was successful in trea

2 eural effusion underwent small-bore-catheter thoracostomy and talc pleurodesis.

3 enous catheterizations, bilateral chest tube thoracostomies, and tracheostomies were performed while

4 ing elective thoracic surgery requiring tube thoracostomy did not reduce the number of infectious com

5 ibrinolytic therapy, and for the duration of thoracostomy drainage (P <.001).

6                    Esophageal stenting, tube thoracostomy drainage, and antibiotics may be a manageme

7  thoracoscopic wedge resection (n = 2), tube thoracostomy (n = 2), or pneumonectomy (n = 1) for diagn

8 s may require anti-inflammatory agents, tube thoracostomy, or intrapleural injection of sclerosing ag

9 y treated with combined esophageal stenting, thoracostomy pleural drainage and antibiotics.

10          Other treatment included chest tube thoracostomy, sump drainage of proximal esophagus, percu

11 ected to 10 cm H2O suction, using a standard thoracostomy tube drainage device.

12    Intravenous hydration, inotropic support, thoracostomy tube drainage of a pleural effusion, and pr

13 ysis with urokinase or alteplase facilitates thoracostomy tube drainage of parapneumonic pleural flui

14 or complications, including pneumothorax and thoracostomy tube insertion.

15 ed in this study, alteplase produces greater thoracostomy tube output than does urokinase.

16 ion, signs and symptoms, laboratory results, thoracostomy tube output, treatment details, and radiogr

17 al fluid accumulations who were treated with thoracostomy tube placement and intrapleural instillatio

18 ts had pneumothorax, with 19 (31%) requiring thoracostomy tube placement.

19  placebo (n = 126) for 48 hours or until all thoracostomy tubes were removed, whichever came first.

20  was suspected in 5 of the 8 cases, and tube thoracostomy was done in 4 of these 5 cases.