Use of Blake drains following lung resection

Saxena, Pankaj; Kejriwal, Nand; Newman, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.10.003

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“…The multi-groove silicone drains are believed to be less painful for patients, enabling earlier mobilization after surgery and in the meantime inducing patients to cough strongly and expel sputum gathered in the airway after surgery, therefore reducing the chance of pulmonary infection (28,36). This is in contrast to the conventionally used large sized chest drains, which may hinder the postoperative recovery by limiting ambulation and interfering with effective chest physiotherapy (37,38). There was no significant difference in the average hospital stay time, arrhythmia rates, and chest tube removal time between the 2 groups.…”

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Efficacy of multi-groove silicone drains in single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery and their effect on C-reactive protein: a single-center experience

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Background: The purpose of this study was to systematically evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a multi-groove silicone drain in single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery and its effect on postoperative serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 122 surgical cases who underwent standard lobectomy and lymph node dissection for primary lung cancer between May 2020 and December 2020. A total of 62 patients received 19-F multi-groove silicone drains (experimental group) and 60 patients received 24-F conventional chest drains (control group). According to the different thoracic drainage approaches, the clinical efficacy in the perioperative period, postoperative complications, and postoperative serum CRP levels were compared between the 2 groups. Results: In this study, thoracic drainage volume, the average visual analog scale (VAS) pain scores in incisions, the rate of primary healing at the site of incisions, and the pulmonary infection rate in the multigroove silicone drain group were significantly lower than those in the conventional chest drain group (P<0.05), but there was no significant difference in the average hospital stay time, arrhythmia rates, and chest tube removal time between the 2 groups. At postoperative day 1, the levels of serum CRP in the 2 groups were further increased (P>0.05), and the comparison between the 2 groups showed that the levels of serum CRP in the multi-groove silicone drain group at 72 h after the operation were significantly lower than those in the conventional drain group (P<0.05). Conclusions:Our results showed that a multi-groove silicone drain is feasible and relatively safe in singleport video-assisted thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery for most patients. However we should take cautious in those patients with higher susceptibility of postoperative active bleeding. In patients undergoing lung cancer surgery in the clinical treatment process, the use of a multi-groove silicone drain can improve the quality of life of patients. Due to a small number of included studies and unclear bias, the above results should be verified by high-quality, large-sample randomized controlled studies.

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Efficacy of multi-groove silicone drains in single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery and their effect on C-reactive protein: a single-center experience

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“…The characteristics of the drains have evolved to become more flexible, and their calibre has been reduced; all this has resulted in a comfort increase (11). By draining along their whole length, some drains-similar to those used by Taniguchi et al-have seen their drainage capacity enhanced (12)(13)(14).…”

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Is there a real need for a remotely actuated magnetic chest drain device?

Fournel¹,

Alifano

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2019

J Thorac Dis

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“…Discussion ! Recently, there have been several reported cases in which Blake drains have been used for drainage after general thoracic surgery [2][3][4][5][6]. While each of these reports has confirmed the usefulness of Blake drains, there have been no reports comparing the use of Blake drains and the use of conventional drains in clinical cases.…”

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