Mediastinal/chest drain
Soft, multi-perforated silicone or PVC tube connected to an underwater-seal or digital suction collection system.
How it is used
Placed in the pericardial/mediastinal (and pleural, if the internal mammary artery was harvested) space at closure to evacuate blood and prevent tamponade; standard in essentially every cardiac case.
Sources
This entry is part of the Instriq catalog, researched and written per specialty from real web research -- never generated or invented without verification -- and reviewed skeptically and independently before publication. How this catalog is written.
History
Added to the catalog on 2026-10-15.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.