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You are managing a patient with a spontaneous pneumothorax and a chest drain in situ, with evidence of ongoing air leak on the fifth day post insertion. You pause to… Click to show full abstract
You are managing a patient with a spontaneous pneumothorax and a chest drain in situ, with evidence of ongoing air leak on the fifth day post insertion. You pause to consider this case of persistent air leak: is this chest drain effectively managing the air escaping through the defect in the patients visceral pleural or is it in fact exacerbating an air leak that would have settled more quickly without intervention?
Keywords:
paradigm persistent;
air leak;
persistent air;
challenging paradigm;
air;
leak prolonging
Journal Title: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Year Published: 2022
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Journal Title: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Year Published: 2022
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