Drainology at EACTS 2022 in Milan
Joint Focus Session on Drainology:
Saturday, October 8, 2022, 2.00-3.30 PM CEST
Chair: Francesco Di Chiara
Speakers: Stephen D. Cassivi, Giovanni M. Comacchio, Patrick Dorn, Daniel T. Engelman, Theodor Fischlein, Bo Laksáfoss Holbek and Bernd Niemann
Topics
- The concept of drainology
- Variations in chest drain management in cardiac and thoracic surgery
- Digital drains in cardiac surgery
- Evidence-based chest drain management
- Retained blood syndrome after cardiac surgery
- Impact of a standardized protocol for chest tube managment after VATS pulmonary resections on post-operative outcomes
- Evaluation of fluid output threshold for safe chest tube removal after pulmonary surgery – A potential way to decrease length of stay in hospital and to improve postoperative care after lung surgery? A single center randomized controlled trial
Fore more details see EACTS Annual Meeting program