Journal of Chest Surgery

The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (대한심장혈관흉부외과학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

Outpatient Drainage Therapy with a Thoracic Vent for Traumatic Pneumothorax due to Bull Attack

  • Sano, Atsushi (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chigasaki Municipal Hospital) ;
  • Tsuchiya, Takehiro (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chigasaki Municipal Hospital) ;
  • Nagano, Masaaki (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chigasaki Municipal Hospital)
  • Received : 2013.11.11
  • Accepted : 2014.01.03
  • Published : 2014.12.05
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

Outpatient drainage therapy is generally indicated for spontaneous pneumothoraces. A 63-year-old man, who had been attacked by a bull sustaining injuries on the right side of his chest, was referred to the emergency room with dyspnea. His chest X-ray showed a small pneumothorax. The next day, a chest X-ray demonstrated that his pneumothorax had worsened, although no hemothorax was identified. Outpatient drainage therapy with a thoracic vent was initiated. The air leak stopped on the third day and the thoracic vent was removed on the sixth day. Thoracic vents can be a useful modality for treating traumatic pneumothorax without hemothorax.

Keywords

References

  1. Noh TO, Ryu KM. Comparative study for the efficacy of small bore catheter in the patients with iatrogenic pneumothorax. Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2011;44:418-22. https://doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2011.44.6.418
  2. Samelson SL, Goldberg EM, Ferguson MK. The thoracic vent: clinical experience with a new device for treating simple pneumothorax. Chest 1991;100:880-2. https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.100.3.880
  3. Martin T, Fontana G, Olak J, Ferguson M. Use of pleural catheter for the management of simple pneumothorax. Chest 1996;110:1169-72. https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.110.5.1169
  4. Shorr RM, Crittenden M, Indeck M, Hartunian SL, Rodriguez A. Blunt thoracic trauma: analysis of 515 patients. Ann Surg 1987;206:200-5. https://doi.org/10.1097/00000658-198708000-00013
  5. Dogan KH, Demirci S, Erkol Z, Sunam GS, Kucukkartallar T. Injuries and deaths occurring as a result of bull attack. J Agromedicine 2008;13:191-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/10599240802405975

Cited by

  1. Commentary vol.7, pp.1, 2014, https://doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.196471
  2. Effectiveness of Ambulatory Tru-Close Thoracic Vent for the Outpatient Management of Pneumothorax: A Prospective Pilot Study vol.18, pp.3, 2014, https://doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2017.18.3.519
  3. Thoracoscopic Surgery for Pneumothorax Following Outpatient Drainage Therapy vol.23, pp.5, 2014, https://doi.org/10.5761/atcs.oa.17-00054
  4. Outpatient drainage for patients with spontaneous pneumothorax over 50 years of age vol.34, pp.3, 2017, https://doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.205324