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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:236
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Redon drains and underwater seal: The better of two worlds?

Nawwar Al-Attar, FRCS, FETCS, PhD, Richard Raffoul, MD, Patrick Nataf, MD

Bichat Hospital, Paris, France

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We read with interest the recent article of Gwozdziewicz, Nemec, and Steriovsky1Go describing a technique of chest drainage after cardiac surgery with Redon drains (B. Braun Melsungen AG, Melsungen, Germany) .

Five Redon drains are placed in an elaborate fashion into the pericardial space and further drains are added if the pleura are opened and require drainage. The drains are attached to a reservoir under suction of –800 mbar (816 cm H2O).

On one hand, we fully agree with the . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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