Chest Tubes After Open Heart Surgery. When a patient has a chest tube after heart surgery, the tube is inserted near the sternum (breastbone), and is intended to drain any blood that accumulates away from the surgery site.
Currently there are five major types of sorghum grown: 1) Grain sorghum with dwarf varieties that grow 2 to 5 ft tall for easier combining. 2) Forage sorghum which grows 6 to 12 ft tall, produces more dry matter tonnage than grain sorghum, is coarse stemmed and used for silage.
The United States is the world's largest producer of sorghum. While Americans do use sorghum, India and parts of Africa consider it a particularly valuable food source. Milling the grain like wheat to make flour is one way to use sorghum; however, this is not one of the better-known uses of the crop.