#128 Cirrhosis Bleeding Risk, FFP and Indwelling Pleural Catheters: Gray Matters Segments
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Dogma of Avoiding Indwelling Catheters in Patients With Cirrhosis
The dogma of avoiding them must have emerged for a reason, right? Maybe the dogma came from the fact that chest tubes are associated with high morbidity, clinical deterioration, sometimes death. But here we're talking about indwelling plural catheters, which are different. So maybe we were inappropriately extrapolating from what happened with large bore surgical chest tubes. And so it's hard to hold onto these because they've been around for so long and there's not a lot of evidence to guide them or refute them.
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