• Diego Arley Gomes da Silva, Paula Duarte D'Ambrosio, Fabio Eiti Nishibe Minamoto, Bernardo Mulinari de Lacerda Pessoa, Rocha JuniorEservalEInstituto do Câncer, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (HCFMUSP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil., Leticia Leone Lauricella, Ricardo Mingarini Terra, Paulo Manuel Pêgo-Fernandes, and Alessandro Wasum Mariani.
• Divisao Cirurgia Toracica, Instituto do Coracao, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: diegoarley@live.com.
• Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2024 Jan 1; 79: 100399100399.

Background And ObjectiveThis study aims to quantify bedside pleural procedures performed at a quaternary teaching hospital describing technical and epidemiological aspects.Materials And MethodsThe authors retrospectively reviewed consecutive patients who underwent invasive thoracic bedside procedures between March 2022 and February 2023.Results463 chest tube insertions and 200 thoracenteses were performed during the study period. Most procedures were conducted by 1st-year Thoracic Surgery residents, with Ultrasound Guidance (USG). There was a notable preference for small-bore pigtail catheters, with a low rate of immediate complications.ConclusionBedside thoracic procedures are commonly performed in current medical practice and are significant in surgical resident training. The utilization of pigtail catheters and point-of-care ultrasonography by surgical residents in pleural procedures is increasingly prevalent and demonstrates high safety.Copyright © 2024 HCFMUSP. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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