
49. Top Consults: Malignant Pleural Effusions
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The Differences Between Indwellian Pleurocalcathar and Mechanical Plurodesis
There's data to help guide our decisions and we know taking into account that there's a lot of patient preference into this. In the most successful carefully collected data possible pleurodesis has a whole no matter how it's done might be successful in the short term about 70% of the time. The more often you drain often for a pleurocalcathar the more often you'll see the Pleurodesis sooner if you're not using an actual chemical agent that's great. We have figured out ways but it is labor intensive to get some visiting nurses around with pandemic nurse shortage.
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