Tube thoracostomy during the COVID-19 pandemic: guidance and recommendations from the AAST Acute Care Surgery and Critical Care Committees

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Surgery, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• ² Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
• ³ Department of Surgery, Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Center, Falls Church, Virginia, USA.