
37. Top Consults: Approach to Parapneumonic Effusions
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How to Treat a Pyranemonic Effluent
DFK, I wanted to see if you can comment specifically on what size tubes you typically place for a plural drainage and when placing the tube. How long do you usually tell the patient that the tube needs to be in for and further management with that? Mahir: Our go-to tube is the 14th French. The beautiful thing about it is the incremental invasiveness of a 14th French tube over an 8th French Thoris-Sintisse's catheter is really millimeters. These tubes come with a stopcock. So if you do need to instill in some act therapy or even saline, you could do it.
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