ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022
Promising Effects of Digital Chest Tube Drainage System for Pulmonary Resection: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.
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- Wearable technologies for perioperative recovery monitoring in lung cancer surgery: a systematic review of feasibility, recovery outcomes, and evidence certainty.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Pooled it
- Digital pleural versus analog drainage devices for postoperative management of patients after pulmonary resection.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Association of Wearable Activity Monitors and Digital Drainage Device With Daily Ambulation and Length of Stay Among Pulmonary Resection Patients: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Study.Thoracic cancer · 2025Trial
- Comparison between use of a pleural drainage system with flutter valve and a conventional water-seal drainage system after lung resection: a randomized prospective study.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina · 2024Trial
- [Digital Drainage Systems in Postoperative Chest Tube Management after Pulmonary Resection: Current Status and Future Perspectives].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2026Review
- Contemporary Pleural Drainage in Adult Practice: Image-Guided Techniques, Procedural Safety, Training Standards, and Malignant Pleural Effusion Management.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Suction Impact on Chest Drain Duration After Lung Resection: A Study Using Digital Drainage Systems.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Bronchopleural fistula after lobectomy: retrospective study of different treatment solutions.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Elimination of routine chest X-rays after lung resection: a quality improvement initiative.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Postoperative management using a digital drainage system for massive air leakage after pulmonary resection.Surgery today · 2024Article
- Mastering the maze: navigating prolonged air leak in thoracic surgery.Journal of visualized surgery · 2024Review
- Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic anatomical resection of the right anterior pulmonary segment in a 10-year-old child with congenital pulmonary airway malformation.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2023Article
- About a new pleural digital drainage system, the Thoraguard device.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
- Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery without drainage-tube placement for pulmonary wedge resection: a single-center retrospective study.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2022Article
- Use of a novel digital drainage system after pulmonary resection.Journal of thoracic disease · 2022Article
- Digital drainage systems: reminding what is important.Journal of thoracic disease · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe chest tube drainage system (CTDS) of choice for the pleural cavity after pulmonary resection remains controversial. This systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) aimed to assess the length of hospital stay, chest tube placement duration, and prolonged air leak among different types of CTDS.
methodsThis systemic review and NMA included 21 randomized controlled trials (3399 patients) in PubMed and Embase until 1 June 2021. We performed a frequentist random effect in our NMA, and a P-score was adopted to determine the best treatment. We assessed the clinical efficacy of different CTDSs (digital/suction/non-suction) using the length of hospital stay, chest tube placement duration, and presence of prolonged air leak.
resultsBased on the NMA, digital CTDS was the most beneficial intervention for the length of hospital stay, being 1.4 days less than that of suction CTDS (mean difference (MD): -1.40; 95% confidence interval (CI): -2.20 to -0.60). Digital CTDS also had significantly reduced chest tube placement duration, being 0.68 days less than that of suction CTDSs (MD: -0.68; 95% CI: -1.32 to -0.04). Neither digital nor non-suction CTDS significantly reduced the risk of prolonged air leak.
conclusionsDigital CTDS is associated with better outcomes than suction and non-suction CTDS for patients undergoing pulmonary resections, specifically 0.68 days shorter chest tube duration and 1.4 days shorter hospital stay than suction CTDS.
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