Drainage after cardiac and thoracic surgery
Improved treatment success and optimised care – backed by clinical studies
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ARRANGE APPOINTMENTDigital 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
Kompakt, lätt, bärbar enhet med smidigt bärhandtag
Erbjuder oavbruten dränagebehandling i vårdmiljöer, inklusive sådana utan tillgång till ett centralt vakuumsystem, vilket gör att det kan användas på tillfälliga behandlingsavdelningar för covid-19-patieneter eller för icke-covid-19-patienter som flyttas från avdelningar som görs om till särskilda covid-19-avdelningar.
Uppladdningsbart litiumjonbatteri
Tack vare den långa batterilivslängden kan patienter röra sig fritt på sjukhuset och enkelt transporteras samtidigt som effektiv dränering kan upprätthållas.
Digital skärm
- Digital spårning av flödeseffektivitet och luftläckagetrender över tid.
- Möjliggör tillförlitlig övervakning av patientstatus och gör det enkelt för vårdpersonalen att fatta tidiga beslut baserat på objektiva realtidsdata.
Dubbellumenslang
- Säkerställer att sugning bara sker när det behövs.
- Finns med enkel koppling eller Y-koppling och i tre olika storlekar.
Systemstatusmeddelanden
Inbyggda vägledningar underlättar felsökning på plats vilket ger ökad användarvänlighet.
Behållare för engångsbruk
- Löstagbar behållare med volym på 0,3 liter, 0,8 liter eller 2 liter möjliggör säker och enkel uppsamling av vätska.
- Korskontaminering förhindras genom att behållaren har ett inbyggt hydrofilt filter från POREX® som skyddar mot överströmning och bakterier. Modeller med förtjockningsmedel finns som tillval för att minska risken för spill och därmed skydda personalen.
Hygieniskt system som är enkelt att rengöra
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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ARRANGE APPOINTMENTWhether 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
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Thopaz+ is recommended by leading cardiac and thoracic surgeons
"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
"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
"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).
2 Pompili C, Brunelli A, Salati M, et al. Impact of the learning curve in the use of a novel electronic chest drainage system after pulmonary lobectomy: a case-matched analysis on the duration of chest tube usage. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2011;13(5):490–3.
3 Jablonski S, Brocki M, Wawrzycki M, et al. Efficacy assessment of the drainage with permanent airflow measurement in the treatment of pneumothorax with air leak. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2014;62(6):509–15.
4 Mier JM, Molins L, Fibla JJ. The benefits of digital air leak assessment after pulmonary resection: prospective and comparative study. Cir Esp 2010;87(6):385–9.
5 Varela G, Jiménez MF, Novoa NM, et al. Postoperative chest tube management: measuring air leak using an electronic device decreases variability in the clinical practice. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;35(1):28–31
6 Southey D et al. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2015;23(7):832-8.
7 Pompili C et al. Ann Thorac Surg 2014;98(2):490-7.
8 Rathinam S et al. J Cardiothorac Surg 2011;6:59.