Employment and Training Administration (ETA) The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The Department of Labor (DOL), in coordination with the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS), has worked to prepare everyone for the implementation of WIOA.
Those who undergo a successful Whipple procedure may have a five-year survival rate of up to 25%. The classic Whipple procedure is named after Allen Whipple, MD, a Columbia University surgeon who was the first American to perform the operation in 1935.
Tube thoracostomy, image directed catheters, thoracoscopic drainage, intrapleural thrombolytics, decortications and open drainage have all been used with success rates ranging from 10 to 90%.[3,4] The variable success rates of these procedures can be attributed, in part, to the stage of the empyema at presentation.