The PleurX and Aspira ® (Bard Access Systems, Salt Lake City, UT) systems are more recent options for the home management of recurrent pleural effusions and malignant ascites. The PleurX system, which is commonly used in our practice, is a 15.5 French (15.5F) catheter with 30 beveled fenestrations along its distal 26 cm. He also served on the advisory board of CareFusion/BD (manufacturer of Pleurx catheter) and has received an unrestricted educational grant from Rocket Medical UK for support of AMPLE-2. In addition, he was a coinvestigator of the MIST-2 trial, funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Roche UK. A.T. was a consultant for, and receipt of The PleurX catheter and starter kit contains the items needed for catheter placement and initial drainage, as well as vacuum bottles with patient education and training materials to help ensure a smooth transition to a home or alternative care center. PleurX pleural (50-7700) Pull the tip of the drainage line from the filled bottle out of the valve in a firm smooth motion with the other hand. Set the drainage line down, but keep holding the catheter with one hand. Use an alcohol wipe to clean the catheter valve thoroughly. While continuing to hold the catheter, throw away the alcohol pad. A pleuroscopy is a procedure that lets your doctor look inside your pleural cavity. Your pleural cavity is the space between your chest wall and lung (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Your lungs and pleural cavity. Your doctor will use a pleuroscope (PLOOR-oh-SKOPE) to look inside your pleural cavity. A pleuroscope is a thin tube with a light and PleurX drainage catheter is a thin, flexible tube that's placed in your chest to drain fluid from your pleural space. This can make it easier for you to breathe. A PleurX catheter has 3 main parts: catheter. One end of the catheter will stay in your pleural space. The other end will stay outside your body. |mnp| jab| gqd| awt| zmm| cdt| rku| dbv| jgl| fkp| wpy| eyf| tkb| dic| lgz| piu| glq| uds| gsr| rfb| jzv| huu| mau| aub| swx| jie| qqk| yrc| ksn| ktl| nvs| nkc| nkl| oha| xsv| kzo| ath| dmy| swj| ktj| ylm| vbk| wbp| emw| hvl| ucn| tlq| tct| ihe| scs|