Standard pleural drainage after cardiac surgery is accomplished through the intercostal space and the divided parietal pleura, often causing severe additional chest pain. To circumvent this mute of insertion a doubly angled polyvinyl chloride drain was developed which can be placed via the median approach through the rectus abdominis muscle just beside the anterior mediastinal drains without irritation of the heart and parietal pleura into the phrenico-costal sinus.
Postthoracotomy pain - Poststernotomy pain control - Pleural drainage
