Less pain with flexible fluted silicone chest drains than with conventional rigid chest tubes after cardiac surgery

Akowuah, Enoch MRCS
Ho, Eu Chin MB, ChB
George, Rina MB, ChB
Brennan, Karl MB, ChB
Tennant, Sue MSc, MDCR
Braidley, Peter FRCS(C/Th)
Cooper, Graham MD, FRCS(C/Th)

Sheffield, United Kingdom
From the Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery^a and Echocardiography,^b Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Received for publication March 26, 2002.

Accepted for publication April 18, 2002.

Address for reprints: Enoch Akowuah, MRCS, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Herries Rd, Sheffield, United Kingdom S5 7AU (E-mail [email protected]).

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;124:1027-8

Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery 124(5):p 1027-1028, November 2002.