The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 135, Issue 2 , Pages 269-273 , February 2008

Results of a prospective algorithm to remove chest tubes after pulmonary resection with high output

  • Robert James Cerfolio, MD, FACS, FCCP

      Affiliations

    • Section of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, Professor of Surgery, Chief of Section of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 703 19th St S, ZRB 739, Birmingham, AL 35294.
    • ,
  • Ayesha S. Bryant, MSPH, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala

Received 25 June 2007 ,Revised 7 August 2007 ,Accepted 17 August 2007.

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 Presented at the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM, June 27–30, 2007.

PII: S0022-5223(07)01746-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.08.066

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 135, Issue 2 , Pages 269-273 , February 2008

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