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 ...

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