What's the difference between drainage and thoracentesis?
Drainage
Definition:
(n.) A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.
(n.) The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.
(n.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.
(n.) Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.
(n.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(2) The maximum duration of the drainage was 24 days and complete recovery was obtained in all patients without further surgical treatments.
(3) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
(4) Peripheral blood leukocytes demonstrated cell-mediated immunity against melanoma antigens before and throughout the period of drainage, except for the immediate postoperative period.
(5) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
(6) Treatment was always surgical, with the following procedures: Laparotomy and chest drainage tube in 7 cases (21%), thoracotomy in 12 cases (36%) and a combined thoracoabdominal approach in 14 (43%).
(7) Drainage of contrast medium from the maxillary sinus during blowing and sniffing was studied by cine-roentgenography in 11 healthy subjects.
(8) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
(9) Fibronectin level in the ocular drainage system of humans grows with ageing and rapidly increases at different stages of primary open-angle glaucoma development.
(10) Tretinoin (all-trans-retinoic acid) acts to normalize desquamation of follicular epithelium, promote drainage of comedones, and inhibit formation of new ones.
(11) The other 3 dogs died or were euthanatized, and the effect of stopping thoracic drainage could not be evaluated.
(12) Continuous in utero tracheal ligation and drainage (over a period of 21-28 days) both result in malformations of the developing fetal lamb lung.
(13) Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) was conceptualized more than 35 years ago, but its clinical application only flourished in the past 10 years after a number of technical refinements.
(14) The blood flow contributions and drainage patterns of the pulmonary and systemic circulations in the upper airways (trachea and main bronchi) were assessed in anesthetized dogs by injecting 15-micron radiolabeled microspheres into the right and left heart, respectively.
(15) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(16) The fibrosis of the gastric wall with motility disturbances, and the diminution of acid and pepsin production from damage to the glandular elements, would weigh against the addition of a vagotomy to the drainage procedure.
(17) As with abdominal abscess drainage, a preexisting fistula may be opacified only after several days of catheter drainage and cannot be predicted at the time of initial aspiration.
(18) Up to now, one surgical repair in an adolescent with transposed great arteries and total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage of the supracardiac type has been reported.
(19) The reconstructive operation performed in each case depended on the preexisting drainage procedure.
(20) ALT is recommended as an alternative to drainage surgery.
Thoracentesis
Definition:
(n.) The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The therapeutic options included observation alone (40 occurrences), thoracentesis (6 occurrences), chest tube thoracostomy (102 occurrences), and thoracotomy (20 occurrences).
(2) Fifty patients had nondiagnostic physical and roentgenographic examinations and were believed at high risk for exploratory thoracentesis.
(3) Procedures with more than one complication included the following: left-sided cardiac catherization (18% probability of complication); arteriovenous shunt (60% probability); thoracentesis (19%); bronchoscopy (25%); and percutaneous liver biopsy (8%).
(4) The condition can be managed by conservative means consisting of adequate neck drainage and thoracentesis or chest tube drainage.
(5) To determine if CU was beneficial when thoracentesis was performed by clinicians or house staff, we evaluated prospectively 205 patients presenting with pleural effusion at 2 community teaching hospitals.
(6) Human macrophages obtained by thoracentesis had comparable levels of NBT reduction and O2.-generation.
(7) The imaging of pleural effusions by plain radiography, sonography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has greatly facilitated the planning of both initial diagnostic thoracentesis and subsequent therapeutic management.
(8) All patients had previously undergone a thoracentesis together with an unguided pleural biopsy but had remained undiagnosed.
(9) Catheter migration occurred and effective drainage ceased after three days, but with tocolysis and bilateral thoracentesis, delivery was delayed another 48 hours to allow steroid therapy.
(10) Control of thoracentesis' efficiency as well as exact supervision of the disease's course are made feasible by repeated sonographic examinations.
(11) Focal pulmonary infarction resulting from entrapment of lung within a chest tube represents one of the complications of thoracentesis.
(12) If pleural fluid is seen on radiographs, thoracentesis must be performed.
(13) A definitive pleural symphysis was obtained in all cases but 2 (92% positive results): in 1 case, a further single thoracentesis of 400 ml was necessary, and in the 2nd case the patient died within 6 days from an acute evolution of her Hodgkin's disease.
(14) Fifty-nine consecutive patients with pleural effusions who were undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic thoracentesis in whom the etiology of the effusion could be determined were studied.
(15) In all patients, the diagnosis had been unobtainable by the usual diagnostic modalities of bronchoscopy, scalene node biopsy, mediastinoscopy, thoracentesis, or closed pleural biopsy.
(16) Thoracentesis was continued until the patient developed severe symptoms (chest pain or coughing), the pleural pressure dropped below -20 cm H2O, or no more fluid could be obtained.
(17) Conservative treatment was performed in 106, pleural drainage or thoracentesis in 29, and surgery in 60.
(18) If the thickness of the fluid on the decubitus radiograph is greater than 10 mm, a diagnostic thoracentesis should be performed.
(19) It can easily guide percutaneous procedures such as biopsy, thoracentesis, abscess drainage, catheterization of subclavian vein, etc.
(20) The PaO2 showed increase and P(A-a)O2 decrease but the PaCO2 not changes after thoracentesis 20 minutes and two hours.