%0 Journal Article
%T Heimlich valve and pneumothorax
%A Aggeliki Rapti
%A Anastasia Karavergou
%A Antonis Papaiwannou
%A Apostolos Gogakos
%A Athanasios Zissimopoulos
%A George Lazaridis
%A Georgia Pitsiou
%A Georgia Trakada
%A Ioannis Kioumis
%A Ioannis Mpoukovinas
%A Katerina Tsirgogianni
%A Konstantinos Zarogoulidis
%A Kosmas Tsakiridis
%A Nikolaos Barbetakis
%A Nikolaos Katsikogiannis
%A Paul Zarogoulidis
%A Sofia Baka
%A Sofia Lampaki
%A Vasilis Karavasilis
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2015
%R 10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2015.03.25
%X First introduced in 1965, the Heimlich flutter valve is a one-way portable device that was designed for use as a drainage procedure in order to avoid the need for intrapleural suction after thoracotomy (1). The inventor of the valve was Henry Heimlich, an American thoracic surgeon who also first described the Heimlich maneuver. Soon, it became very popular in the outpatient management of patients with prolonged air-leakage from various causes (2), and has also been used in emergency treatment of pneumothorax in battle fronts (3)
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