Hemothorax happens when an injury or other factor causes blood to collect in the chest. Signs and symptoms of hemothorax include chest pain, cold or clammy skin, rapid heart rate, low blood ...

Your doctor may offer you medicine for pain. Sometimes, hemothorax or the injury that causes it results in a collapsed lung. If that happens, you will need a chest tube to inflate your lung.

Updated 7:35 p.m. A pre-clinical evaluation of a self-clearing chest tube developed by Clear Catheter Systems Inc. has demonstrated the tube that clears itself works better to drain the chest ...

The insertion of a chest tube is a common procedure in trauma care, and the Advanced Trauma Life Support program teaches the insertion of chest tubes as an essential and life-saving skill. The purpose ...