The improved mediastinal drainage strategy for the enhanced recovery system after esophagectomy.

CONCLUSIONS: The transperitoneal placement of a single mediastinal drain can reduce postoperative pain and the incidence of pleural effusion, without increasing the incidence of other major postoperative complications and postoperative hospital stay.
PMID: 33031778 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - October 5, 2020 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Wang D, Xu L, Yang F, Wang Z, Sun H, Chen X, Xie H, Li Y Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research