Doctors can use straight tubes or pigtail tubes ... vein or carefully place them under the skin of the chest for long-term use. A pleural catheter may be necessary for a person who has a continual ...

Imaging of chest tube position, control of assisted ventilation during needle insertion and control of the depth of introducer insertion may limit lung injury during pigtail catheter placement.

Complications of ultrasound-guided insertion of a pigtail catheter are few ... such as insertion of a chest tube or surgical revision. Ultrasound guidance is currently considered to be the ...

Securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance in 2010, PleuraFlow ensures that chest tubes are unobstructed in ...

A pigtail drainage tube was inserted guided by computed tomography. The procedure was complicated by the development of a massive hemopneumo-thorax for which the patient required an emergency ...