This can require a longer stay in the hospital for drainage with chest tubes.

However, not all these cases of pneumothorax need treatment with a chest tube.

The doctor can use a chest tube to drain the blood.

A chest tube can remove the air and let the lung expand again.

After heart surgery, chest tubes are placed to drain blood.

The chest tube, I soon discovered, was only periodically painful.

He's had a chest tube in the last ten hours, they tell me.

The chest tube can be left in place for several days.

However, you may be able to go home if a small chest tube is used.

A collapsed lung will often need treatment with a chest tube.