Thoracostomy tubes work by draining air or fluid from the chest cavity, and are most commonly used to treat pneumothorax or pleural effusion. Generally, a unilateral thoracostomy tube is ...

When a bleb ruptures the air escapes into the chest cavity causing a pneumothorax (air between the lung and chest ... a chest tube is left in to help adhere the once deflated lung to the chest wall ...

iPhone 17 Air screen size and camera specs leak The handset could start at 128GB of storage It's set to be slightly smaller than the iPhone 17 Pro Max It seems likely that the iPhone 16 Plus is ...

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia says in most cases of spontaneous pneumothorax, a bleb (small area in the lungs ...