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"Active Chest Tube Clearance Added to an Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERAS) Program Improves Outcomes and Reduces Resource Utilization"

Adding PleuraFlow’s Active Chest Tube Clearance (ATC) to an ERAS cardiac surgery program reduced Retained Blood Syndrome by 41%, postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) by 17%, and ICU time by 30% in 684 patients compared to 650 controls, improving outcomes and resource utilization. (Gerdisch, et al, 2025)

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2009 EACTS TechnoCollege Innovation Award

The company was awarded the prestigious 2009 European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Techno-College Innovation Award for its PleuraFlow® Active Tube Clearance® System. The Techno-College Award is a worldwide competition to identify innovations that have the potential to change the standard of care in heart and lung surgery. The award was established by the EACTS to recognize the most important technological breakthrough related to thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.

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