Drainage after cardiac and thoracic surgery

Improved treatment success and optimised care – backed by clinical studies


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Digital drainage solution for cardiac surgery and thoracic surgery

Digital chest drainage systems bring demonstrable benefits to both patients and nursing personnel, as well as to the healthcare facility's economic result. They reduce the duration of chest drainage and the length of stay, while increasing safety for both patient and healthcare personnel.

Reduces the duration of chest drainage, thereby mitigating patient pain

Improves the mobility and safety of chest drainage patients

Facilitates clinical decision making through objective data

Thopaz+ by Medela is specifically designed to provide optimal negative pressure for post-operative chest drainage therapy, as well as objective and reliable monitoring of patient status. Thopaz is the digital system used in numerous comparative studies after lung surgery, which resulted in a more positive patient experience and a shorter air leak duration, drainage duration and inpatient treatment length.1

Compact, lightweight, portable unit with convenient carrying handle

Provides uninterrupted drainage in care settings, including those without access to central vacuum, enabling use in temporary COVID-19 patient care centers or for non-COVID-19 patients who are being moved away from dedicated COVID-19 wards.

Rechargeable Li-Ion battery

Long-life battery allows patients to move independently and be transported with ease while maintaining effective drainage.

Digital display

  • Digitally tracks fluid output and air leak trends over time.
  • Enables reliable monitoring of patient status and supports early decision-making by the care team using objective real-time data.

Double lumen tubing

  • Ensures that suction is only applied when needed.
  • Available with single or y-connectors and in three sizes.

System status notifications

Onboard guides support on-site troubleshooting to enhance ease of use.

Disposable canister

  • Detachable canister with 0.3l, 0.8l or 2l volume ensures safe and simple collection of fluids.
  • To prevent cross-contamination, the canister has an integrated hydrophilic overflow. .and bacteria filter from POREX®. Optional solidifier models eliminate the risk of spilling to protect staff safety.

Hygienic and easy-to-clean system

Thopaz+ Digital Chest Drainage and Monitoring System

Thopaz+ by Medela takes chest drainage therapy to a new level of care. Unlike analogue systems, Thopaz+ reliably regulates the negative pressure in the patient's chest and monitors key therapy indicators digitally (and quietly). Medela's chest drainage therapy has been clinically proven to improve outcomes and optimise care.

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Whether open or minimally invasive, the chest drainage system Thopaz+ by Medela restores natural negative pressure in the pleura after surgery and enables efficient and safe therapy with high added value for patients, surgeons, ward physicians and nursing personnel.

The Thopaz+ mobile chest drainage system has been shown to improve healing, safety and mobility for patients with pleural drainage, mediastinal drainage or pericardial drainage, and to make everyday life easier for healthcare personnel.

As part of a Swiss family-owned company, Medela Healthcare has a long history of manufacturing the highest-quality medical technology products in the field of medical vacuum technology. Medela offers you a collection of studies and scientific findings from doctors on the topic of chest drainage.

About Medela Healthcare

  • More than 55 years of experience in medical vacuum solutions
  • More than 15 years of leadership in digital chest drainage therapy
  • Currently 1,000 systems in use throughout the UK

Thopaz+ is recommended by leading cardiac and thoracic surgeons

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"The use of Thopaz+ can take the surgeon beyond the 24 hour limit for drain removal, using criteria in minutes rather than days. It also facilitates safe day-case thoracic surgery and is an essential component of a modern thoracic surgery programme"

Professor Eric Lim MB ChB MD MSc FRCS(C-Th)Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Royal Brompton Hospital Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Imperial College London
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"Our experience with Thopaz+ has completely changed our patient's monitoring, allowing us to know their status hour by hour as if we were at their side 24 hours a day. With this, we have achieved a shorter hospital stay with the maximum level of assurance at discharge."

Concepción Partida GonzálezThoracic Surgeon. University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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"We quickly embraced the benefits of a technologically advanced device like Thopaz+. Small, light and efficient, enabling medical and nursing teams to reach confident decisions about chest tube management and chest tube removal"

Mr. K. Papagianopoulos MMED THORAX, MD (Cth)Senior Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, St James University Hospital Honorary Senior Lecturer, Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom

 
1 National Institute for Health Excellence. Thopaz+ portable digital system for managing chest drains. Medical technologies guidance [MTG37]; Internet: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/MTG37 (accessed 26/05/2020).
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