Less pain with flexible fluted silicone chest drains than with conventional rigid chest tubes after cardiac surgery

Akowuah, Enoch; Ho, Eu Chin; George, Rina; Brennan, Karl; Tennant, Sue; Braidley, Peter; Cooper, Graham

doi:10.1067/mtc.2002.125641

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Volume 124, Issue 5 , Pages 1027-1028, November 2002

Less pain with flexible fluted silicone chest drains than with conventional rigid chest tubes after cardiac surgery☆

Sheffield, United Kingdom

From the Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery^a and Echocardiography,^b Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Received 26 March 2002; accepted 18 April 2002.

Abstract

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;124:1027-8

☆ Address for reprints: Enoch Akowuah, MRCS, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Herries Rd, Sheffield, United Kingdom S5 7AU (E-mail akowuah@yahoo.com).

PII: S0022-5223(02)00192-7

doi:10.1067/mtc.2002.125641

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Volume 124, Issue 5 , Pages 1027-1028, November 2002

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Less pain with flexible fluted silicone chest drains than with conventional rigid chest tubes after cardiac surgery☆

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