Ultrasound for Plant Thorsacentesis

In an ideal world, you'd want your patient to have normal coag, so an iron are less than 1.5,. Be off all anticoagulates and antiplatelet medications, and have a platelet count of at least 50,000. If there is some urgency to the workup or if there's significant risk to say stopping the antiplatelet or the anticoagulant therapy, we may still proceed with the thoracentesis. There might be a slightly higher risk for hemorrhage.