Less pain with flexible fluted silicone chest drains than with conventional rigid chest tubes after cardiac surgery.
Akowuah
Enoch
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Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Echocardiography, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom. akowuah@yahoo.com
Ho
Eu Chin
EC
George
Rina
R
Brennan
Karl
K
Tennant
Sue
S
Braidley
Peter
P
Cooper
Graham
G
D000368:Aged; D015505:Chest Tubes; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004322:Drainage; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D012828:Silicones / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D006113:United Kingdom
D012828:Silicones