Management of Chest Drains: A National Survey on Surgeons-in-training Experience and Practice.

Background: Chest tube insertion is a simple and sometimes life-saving procedure performed mainly by surgical residents. However with inadequate knowledge and poor expertise, complications may be life threatening.

Objective: We aimed to determine the level of experience and expertise of resident surgeons in performing tube thoracostomy.

Postcoital haemoptysis: a case report and a review of the literature.

Haemoptysis is rarely reported following coitus, and cardiac decompensation has been mostly implicated in the aetiology. We present a 53-year-old Nigerian, known hypertensive diabetic woman with background ischaemic heart disease who presented with postcoital haemoptysis of one-year duration. Echocardiography revealed combined ischaemic and mitral valvular heart disease, probably of rheumatic aetiology.