WEBINAR REPLAY: "Chest Tube Management in Cardiac Surgery" | ERAS Cardiac Society Webinar in collaboration with CTSNet

Key speakers Marc Gillinov, MD, Jurij M. Kalisnik, MD, and Lenard Conradi, MD discuss the clinical implications of retained blood, current strategies in chest tube management, and the benefits of posterior pericardiotomy.
Webinar moderated by Kevin Lobdell, MD, and Marc Gerdisch, MD.

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Educational Webinar: Evidence-Based Strategy in the Prevention of Complications due to Retained Blood

An Educational Webinar with Presenters: Marc Gillinov, MD, Marc Gerdisch, MD, and Alyson Mehringer, RN discussing the basic principles of Chest Tube Management, the results of a 1 year quality improvement study and the operational perspective from the ICU Nursing Staff. The Importance and Benefits of Maintenance of Chest Tube Patency to Prevent Retained Blood after Cardiac Surgery Presented by Marc Gillinov, MD Chair, Department of CardioThoracic Surgery,…

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Randomized Clinical Trial Results Confirm PleuraFlow Reduces Take Back for Bleeding in Cardiac Surgery Patients

Reduction in chest tube clogging and take back for bleeding shown in randomized prospective clinical trial with PleuraFlow ACT System IRVINE, CA —March 30, 2021 ClearFlow, Inc., a medical device company based in Irvine, California, has announced positive clinical trial results published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. The findings are reported by cardiac surgeons at the Montreal Heart Institute, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the article,…

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PleuraFlow Shown to Enable Improved Outcomes for Cardiac Surgery Patients in New Clinical Study Results

Reduction of Patient Complications After Heart Surgery Demonstrated with Use of the ClearFlow’s PleuraFlow ACT System Irvine, CA – October 20, 2020  — ClearFlow, Inc., a medical device company based in Irvine, California, has announced positive clinical trial results presented at the 2020 Virtual Program of the Annual Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society Conference (ECTSS) on October 8th.  The trial evaluated the use of the ClearFlow’s PleuraFlow® Active Clearance Technology® (ACT®) System in…

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New Published Clinical Trial Results Confirm that PleuraFlow Enables Improved Quality and Cost of Care for Cardiac Surgery Patients

Reduction of Patient Complications and Hospital Resource Utilization After Heart Surgery Demonstrated with Use of the PleuraFlow ACT System   Irvine, CA – November 20, 2019 — ClearFlow, Inc., a medical device company based in Irvine, California, has announced positive clinical trial results published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery.  The trial evaluated the use of the PleuraFlow® Active Clearance Technology® (ACT®) System in prevention of retained blood complications in heart surgery…

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ClearFlow Announces Positive Randomized Controlled Trial Results and Inclusion in ERAS Guideline Recommendations

Anaheim, California–May 7, 2019–ClearFlow, Inc., a medical device company based in Anaheim, California, has announced that positive clinical trial results of its PleuraFlow® device were presented at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) 99th Annual meeting on May 4 in Toronto, Canada.  This new data stems from a trial evaluating the use of ClearFlow’s PleuraFlow® Active Clearance Technology® (ACT®) System in heart surgery patients at the Montreal…

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ERAS Cardiac Surgery Featured at Dedicated Session at European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery in Milan

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ClearFlow Awarded Chest Drainage Products Agreement with Premier

Anaheim, CA – August 21, 2018— ClearFlow, Inc., a medical device company based in Anaheim, California, announced today that it has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for the Chest Drainage Products category with Premier.   Effective July 15th 2018, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for:   PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology (ACT) System;…

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ClearFlow Announces Additional Positive US Clinical Trial Results at the 2018 NTI Critical Care Exposition

Boston, MA – May 29th, 2018 — ClearFlow, Inc., a medical device company based in Anaheim, California, has announced that positive clinical trial results were presented at the National Teaching Institute (NTI) & Critical Care Exposition 2018 annual meeting on May 23rd, 2018 in Boston, MA. The findings were presented by the study principal investigator, Dr. Yvon Baribeau, of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, in a…

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