Feasibility and Accuracy of a Novel Pleural Drain Gas Analyzer in Detecting Air Leaks

"Patients enrolled in this study will undergo both VI and pleural gas analysis to assess for air leak following surgical chest tube placement.~For pleural gas analysis, an outlet gas analyzer will be kept on the outlet port of the chest drain for the entire duration of time that a chest tube is in place. We plan to collect both continuous data, looking for intermittent spikes and gas changes, along with episodic data collected during specific air leak assessments. The gas analyzer may better be able to measure an air leak during these specific procedures conducted twice per day, but it will also be used at the outlet port of the chest drain the rest of the time to continuously check for an air leak throughout the hospital stay."