
Episode 52: Pleural effusions in the ICU with Emily Fridenmaker
Critical Care Scenarios
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Is It OK to Drain an Effluent?
The bigger thing for me is not their respiratory status. It's, it's source control. So like this patient, if they had not been intubated yet and you know, it's kind of ify on breathing, you might consider draining this even just therapeutically, but you probably just try to diaries it first. Okay. Do you leave a catheter in place to continue draining or are you just in and out and that's done? Yeah. I am not usually going to use a Thor a catheter and leave it in because those are really tiny. You would put an actual like large bore chest tube in? Not a large bore, a medium bore, like
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