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Episode 105 - 10 Things Your Emergency Physician Wants You to Know

Heavy Lies the Helmet

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Why Needle Decompression Does Not Buy You a Chest Tube

This one really gets my tail rotor going, y'all. I don't understand how this myth is so well propagated. A needle doesn't fix a simple pneumothorax. You might as well give them a PPI. It's unrelated. Then refer back to episode 69 for a tangent on finger-thorax costami versus needle. Now we move on to number five, needle decompression does not buy you a chest tube.

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