Re-discovering the Heimlich valve: Old wine in a new bottle.
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SUBMITTER: Narasimhan A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5234202 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Feb
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Re-discovering the Heimlich valve: Old wine in a new bottle.
Narasimhan Ajay A Ayyanathan Shivanraj S Krishnamoorthy Late Rajavenkatesh LR
Lung India : official organ of Indian Chest Society 20170101 1
A 14-year-old boy came to our outpatient department with pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea. He was found to have a loculated empyema on the right side. He was taken up for surgery and decortication was done. He developed air leak in the postoperative period. When the air leak did not settle until the 10<sup>th</sup> day, we decided to attach the atrium Pneumostat<sup>™</sup>, a modified version of the Heimlich valve to his Intercostal drainage tube and sent him home. On further follow-up, his lun ...[more]
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