METHOD OF FRACTIONAL DRAINANGE OF PLEURAL SPACE AND RELATED DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTATION THEREOF Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A61M27/00 A61B17/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions involving a method of fractional drainage of the pleural space and a related device for implementation thereof refers to medicine, namely to thoracic surgery. Substance of the method consists in dissection of thorax skin, insertion of a catheter into the pleural space on the upper edge of rim with the use of a trocar. A device comprising a two-way catheter consisting of an air pump tube with an air reservoir at the end and an evacuation tube metal-loaded at the end is used. The catheter is inserted into the fourth intercostal space along the medial axillary line, then provided the absence of air in the air reservoir of the two-way catheter, the metal-loaded evacuation tube of weight 2.5-2.7 g is lowered on the fundus of the pleural space to remove the purulent contents through a hole of the evacuation tube and to substitute the purulent contents by an antiseptic solution. Thereafter, air is pumped in the rubber reservoir through a passage of the second catheter tube to raise the catheter above the level of the antiseptic solution in the pleural space. Then the evacuation tube is used to deaerate the pleural space.

EFFECT: use of said method of fractional drainage of the pleural space and the related device for implementation thereof allows to reducing a number of pleuropulmonary complications sue to higher effectiveness of drainage and sanitation of the pleural space over one draining procedure followed by the introduction of antiseptics.

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