脓胸为儿科常见疾病之一,治疗除采用抗生素及支持疗法外,大量积脓时须排脓治疗。既往采用反复穿刺排脓,必要时由外科切开胸壁用闭式引流排脓,二法均有弊端,笔者在援外医疗期间,应用静脉穿刺用的塑料套管针(以下简称套管针)胸腔穿刺后接闭式引流的方法治愈9例脓胸患儿,现报告如下。 Empyema is one of the common pediatric diseases, in addition to the use of antibiotics and supportive therapy, a large number of suppurative empyema to be treated. Past the use of repeated puncture drainage pus, if necessary, by the surgical incision of the chest wall with drainage drainage, the two methods have drawbacks, the author during the aid to foreign countries, the application of venous puncture plastic trocar (hereinafter referred to as trocar) chest Puncture followed by closed drainage method to treat 9 cases of empyema in children, are as follows.