1.   Barring any unforeseen complications, Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe should be released from Massachusetts General Hospital Thursday after having a chest tube removed Wednesday.

2.   Doctors inserted a chest tube when they detected internal bleeding, and Bledsoe was listed in stable condition overnight.

3.   Four chest tubes snaked out of his bandaged chest, with more tubes tethered to his wrists.

4.   Her doctors gave her a series of antibiotics intravenously and used a syringe and then chest tubes to drain her lungs.

5.   It is moving day for Ivanov, who has shed his chest tube and seems to be melting away.

6.   No surgery was required, only a bit of stitching to insert a chest tube.

7.   At night, Shannon said he hears campers talking about having chest tubes removed and other procedures.

8.   Nearly three quarts of bloody fluid filled into the space where the lung collapsed, and doctors at the hospital drained the fluid with a chest tube.

9.   Whalen was taken to Imperial Point Medical Center, and a chest tube was used to help inflate the lung.