Abstract
Aim: The aim of this study was to analyze the demographic and clinical data of patients who underwent tube thoracostomy for two years at the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Materials and Methods: This study were included 114 patients. Patients were evaluated in terms of sex, age, reason of application, symptom, diagnosis, indication of tube thoracostomy, who applied tube thoracostomy, localization of thorax tube, tube thoracostomy complications, duration of the thorax tube on the patient, distribution of patients underwent tube thoracostomy by months.
Results: The most common reason for admission was dyspnea, chest pain, traffic accident and falling from height, respectively. Tube thoracostomy indications in order of frequency; spontaneous pneumothorax, traumatic pneumothorax, pleural effusion and iatrogenic pneumothorax. The localization of tube thoracostomy was mostly right basal hemithorax, left basal hemithorax and bilateral basal. Tube thoracostomy rate was higher in the summer months compared to months (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Tubethoracostomy was underwent to the cases mostly composed of men in the emergency department with the complaints of spontaneous pneumothorax, traumatic pneumothorax and pleural effusion due to traffic accident and fall from height.