TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Techniques for Pleural Drainage and Chest Tube Management A1 - Dolan, Daniel A1 - Lebenthal, Abraham A1 - McNamee, Ciaran J. A1 - Wolf, Andrea S. A2 - Sugarbaker, David J. A2 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Burt, Bryan M. A2 - Groth, Shawn S. A2 - Loor, Gabriel A2 - Wolf, Andrea S. A2 - Williams, Marcia A2 - Adams, Ann PY - 2020 T2 - Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e AB - The concept of chest tube drainage was first advocated by Hippocrates when he described the treatment of empyema by means of incision, cautery, and insertion of metal tubes.1 The technique was not widely used until the influenza epidemic of 1917, which saw an increased use of intercostal drainage for postpneumonic empyema.2 In 1922, Lilienthal described the largest operative experience with use of postoperative chest tubes after 31 lobectomies for suppurative bronchiectasis and use of a chest tube with its end under antiseptic fluid, known as Kenyon’s drain.3 The concept of emergency thoracostomy for acute trauma gained wider popularity following the Korean War in 1945.4 Today the use of chest tubes is part of the day-to-day management of acute trauma and care of thoracic surgery patients. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170405738 ER -