Chest Drains in Daily Clinical Practice

This book covers all aspects of successfully treating patients using chest drains, beginning with anatomy and ending with physiotherapy and pain management. The aim of the book is to provide medical professionals with a step-by-step guide to using a chest drain, with specific chapters on indications, kinds of chest drains, catheters, drainage systems, how to insert a chest tube, complications during placement and handling of a chest drain, removing a chest drain, management of the  pleural space and post-procedural care. Unlike general thoracic surgery textbooks, this book gives a complete overview of chest drains in clinical practice to ensure the best possible care of patients. 

“It is very difficult, within the world of thoracic surgery books, to create a new book that is unique. However, the book “Chest Drains in Daily Clinical Practice” by Thomas Kiefer clearly deserves this distinction, and not just in one way, but for several reasons. ... It addresses aspects of care faced by physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, and, in fact, includes all of these specialties in the choice of authors. It is a worthwhile book for an entire thoracic surgery service to use in organizing their care. ... I recommend this book to anyone involved in thoracic surgical care who is interested in improving patient care, and who is willing to not just focus on flashy high-visibility aspects, but to look at the simple daily routines that may have much greater actual overall impact.” (Frank C. Detterbeck FACS, FCCP, Yale University, Department of Thoracic Surgery, USA)

Thomas Kiefer

Head of Department for Thoracic Surgery

Lunge Center Bodensee

Klinikum Konstanz

Konstanz, Germany