Chest tube clearance system demonstrates value in cardiac surgery study ClearFlow received FDA approval for its PleuraView system in 2010. Image credit: sweet_tomato via Shutterstock.

A new Omaha-based medtech company has developed a self-cleaning chest tube system that provides more precise measurements for monitoring patients recovering from surgery on their heart or lungs.

Four thousand two hundred and sixteen trauma patients had a chest tube placed at the level 1 center, and 364 patients had a chest tube placed at an outside hospital before transfer. Patients with a ...

A trial of ClearFlow’s PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology (ACT) has demonstrated the value in adding the system into Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERAS) cardiac programme ...

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