A man in his 70s died from an injury suffered during a chest drain procedure after heart surgery. A junior doctor caused an injury to a patient’s spleen when he attempted to insert a drain into the ...

A man’s rights were breached by a doctor’s post operative care, the Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found. In a report released today, Carolyn Cooper found the doctor breached Rights 4 ...

Gulrajani, R. (2008) Avoiding hospital admission to drain pleural effusions. This is an extended version of the article published in Nursing Times; 104: 14, 30-31. This article describes the ...

Leakage of air from the lungs into the pleural space can lead to collapse of the lung and difficulty in breathing. Persistent air leaks from the lungs can occur after thoracic operations or trauma, or ...

A senior doctor has rejected claims his insertion of a chest drain contributed to a baby's cardiac arrest, Lucy Letby's murder trial has heard. Manchester Crown Court heard the girl, referred to as ...

A GRIEVING son wants answers after his mother died at Southend Hospital. Sandra Quade was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and died as a result of complications from a chest drain in January ...

A mother of seven bled to death after her lung was torn following a medical blunder at New Cross Hospital. Gurbakhsh Kaur from Wolverhampton died after a doctor tried to drain fluid from her chest but ...

A grief-stricken father has told how he and his wife only had their newborn baby daughter for 42 hours and 27 minutes before she died, when her heart was pierced as she underwent a hospital procedure.