ClearFlow, Inc.

08/21/2025

Positive financial results for hospitals may start in the OR.

There are financial incentives to help patients recover quickly. Start with these recommendations: https://www.clearflow.com/preparing-to-implement-an-eras.../

08/19/2025

Transfusions and complications come to the 1 in 5 patients who have retained blood recovering from surgery.

With Retained Blood, Bleeding Begets More Bleeding after Cardiac Surgery All patients who have surgery have some degree of bleeding in the mediastinum in the immediate postoperative period, called Shed Mediastinal Blood (SMB). Usually this is a microvascular oozing rather than dramatic surgical blee...

08/15/2025

Reduce hospital stay.

Provide patients with a rapid return to pre-surgery activities related to sternal closure following cardiothoracic surgery. Take a look at the ClearFix Rigid Sternal Fixation system and get started.

For the science behind plate fixation read: Rigid Plate Fixation Versus Wire Cerclage: Patient-Reported and Economic Outcomes From a Randomized Trial created by Keith Allen, Vinod Thourani, MD, Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD, Kendra J. Grubb, MD, MHA, FACC, MD, John Grehan, MD, PhD, Nirav Patel, MD, T. Sloane Guy, MD, Kevin Landolfo, MD, Marc Gerdisch, MD, FACS, FACC, FHRS, MD, Mark Bonnell, MD, and David J. Cohen, MD, MS.

For a demo of the ClearFix Rigid Sternal Fixation system,
reach out to Tony Mathiason here on Linkedin.

Check it out at https://lnkd.in/gMgY3_NU

08/13/2025

Reactive vs. proactive has obvious drawbacks and pitfalls. What options are there to prevent chest tubes from clotting? https://clearflow.com/open-chest-tube-clearance-clot-safe-better-way/

08/11/2025

86% of chest tubes occlude below the surface of the skin — going unnoticed.

Marc Gillinov, MD, Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, gives a clinical talk and solutions on alternative ways to avoid chest tube occlusion and prevent the inflammatory consequences of retained blood after cardiac surgery.

You can watch the entire webinar here: https://lnkd.in/dNgPU_Vj
Filmed for the Arab Health Conference in January 2022.

To avoid chest drain occlusion and prevent complications and hospital costs, you can find documentation on the PleuraFlow system that Dr. Gillinov mentions. https://clearflow.com/

08/07/2025

Patients who underwent active chest tube clearance:

⬇️ Re-exploration
⬇️ Pneumonia
⬇️ POAF

Clinical findings support the use of ATC.

After heart surgery, the chest tube removes lost mediastinal blood. Clogging of the chest tube may induce inadequate evacuation of fluids surrounding the lungs and heart, leading to deadly consequences. This meta-analysis compared the effectiveness of active chest tube clearance (ATC) with conventional chest tube (CT) in lowering the incidence of retained blood complications after heart surgery. We conducted a systematic search of the available databases to identify cohort studies or clinical trials that met our inclusion criteria. Studies that compared active tube clearance and conventional tube in cardiac surgery were included. The fixed or random-effects model was used to determine the pooled effect estimates upon the heterogeneity of collected data. This review included 7003 people from five cohort studies and three clinical trials. This meta-analysis provides evidence on the positive effect of active maintenance of chest tube patency during the first hours of cardiac surgery, which resulted in reducing the incidence of complications.

More on this systematic review and meta-analysis can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gJUvd5gM

AUTHORS & AFFILIATIONS:
Faculty of Medicine for Boys, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Mohammed Tarek Hasan, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Hagrass, Mohamed Nabil Elkhrashy, Mohamed Hamouda, Anas Zakarya Nourelden & Ahmed Bostamy Elsnhory
International Medical Research Association (IMedRA), Cairo, Egypt
Mohammed Tarek Hasan, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Hagrass, Mohamed Nabil Elkhrashy, Mohamed Hamouda, Noura Mohamed shada, Sarah M. Hashem, Mohammed Al-kafarna, Hossam Waleed Almadhoon, Khaled Mohamed Ragab, Anas Zakarya Nourelden & Ahmed Bostamy Elsnhory
Gamal Abdel Nasser Axis, The 3rd Settlement, New Cairo, Egypt
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Hagrass
Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Noura Mohamed shada & Sarah M. Hashem
Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine
Mohammed Al-kafarna
Faculty of Dentistry, Al-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine
Hossam Waleed Almadhoon
Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt
Khaled Mohamed Ragab

CONTRIBUTIONS:
Conception and design of the work by Khaled Mohamed Ragab and Ahmed Bostamy Elsnhory.
Selection process and data collection by Mohammed Tarek Hasan, Mohamed Nabil Elkhrashy, Mohamed Hamouda, Noura Mohamed shada, and Sarah M. Hashem.
Data analysis and interpretation by Abdulrahman Ibrahim Hagrass and Khaled Mohamed Ragab.
Drafting the article by Mohammed Al-kafarna and Hossam Waleed Madhoon.
Critical revision and editing of the article by Abdulrahman Ibrahim Hagrass, Ahmed Bostamy Elsnhory, and Anas Zakarya Nourelden.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Correspondence to Abdulrahman Ibrahim Hagrass.

After heart surgery, the chest tube removes lost mediastinal blood. Clogging of the chest tube may induce inadequate evacuation of fluids surrounding the lungs and heart, leading to deadly consequences. This meta-analysis compared the effectiveness of active chest tube clearance (ATC) with conventio...

08/05/2025

Surgery cost savings that improve outcomes for all hospital patients.

When you use the ClearFix Rigid Sternal Fixation system at your facility, you improve postoperative recovery, reduce complications, and save on budgets that can be redirected to improve facilities and equipment which contribute to better patient outcomes and quality of care.

For the science behind plate fixation read: Rigid Plate Fixation Versus Wire Cerclage: Patient-Reported and Economic Outcomes From a Randomized Trial created by Keith Allen, Vinod Thourani, MD, Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD, Kendra J. Grubb, MD, MHA, FACC, MD, John Grehan, MD, PhD, Nirav Patel, MD, T. Sloane Guy, MD, Kevin Landolfo, MD, Marc Gerdisch, MD, FACS, FACC, FHRS, MD, Mark Bonnell, MD, and David J. Cohen, MD, MS.

For a demo of the ClearFix Rigid Sternal Fixation system,
reach out to Tony Mathiason here on Linkedin.

Check it out at https://lnkd.in/gMgY3_NU

08/01/2025

Reintervention clues can lie beneath the surface.

86% of chest tube clogs may not be noticeable at the bedside. Solutions are available, find one here: https://clearflow.com/pleuraflow-act/

07/30/2025

Decrease your chance of chest tubes clogging.
Blockages can go unnoticed and lead to serious complications.

Get solutions and improve outcomes: https://clearflow.com/

07/28/2025

Reduce hospital stay.

Provide patients with a rapid return to pre-surgery activities related to sternal closure following cardiothoracic surgery. Take a look at the ClearFix Rigid Sternal Fixation system and get started.

For the science behind plate fixation read: Orthopedic Principles to Facilitate Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery created by Marc Gerdisch, MD, FACS, FACC, FHRS, MD, Keith Allen, Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD, Mark Bonnell, MD, Kevin Landolfo, MD, John Grehan, MD, PhD, Kendra J. Grubb, MD, MHA, FACC, MD, David J. Cohen, MD, T. Sloane Guy, MD, Nirav C. Patel, MD, Vinod Thourani, MD.

For a demo of the ClearFix Rigid Sternal Fixation system,
reach out to Tony Mathiason here on Linkedin.

Check it out at https://lnkd.in/gtt28_jV

07/24/2025

Minimize retained blood after surgery, and prevent reinterventions. Don't let RBS block your patient's recovery.

See how to reduce risk and improve outcomes.

07/22/2025

Keep chest tubes clear after cardiac surgery.
Clogged chest tubes increase complications and hospital costs.
Watch how to implement the PleuraFlow® Active Clearance Technology® (ACT) System.