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Ep 174 Is Less More? Saving EM and Traumatic Pneumothorax – Highlights from CAEP 2022

Emergency Medicine Cases

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Pigtail Catheter for Traumatic Pneumothorases

In certain instances to use them with her hemo, I don't think you need to worry about a small amount of blood causing failure of your pigtail for a draining at pneumothorax. For the most part, you're doing this to a patient who's going to someone else. So if you can, make sure you have buy-in with the rest of your team and make sure your trauma team is okay with that. And we're not hearing any stories of patients doing terribly and huge complication rates and black box warnings coming out against pigtails for traumatic pneumothorases.

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