Traumacast
Traumacast
The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
All About Hemothorax: Does Chest Tube Size Matter?
46 minutes Posted Jan 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm.
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Join us as we discuss how percutaneous techniques have changed the contemporary management of hemothorax. How did percutaneous (pigtail) thoracostomy come about? Are conventional large bore tubes safer or better? How do you approach undrained hemothorax? Dr. Peter Rhee and Dr. Narong Kulvatunyou challenge current dogma as they answer all these questions and more in this timely traumacast. Dr. Firas Madbak and Dr. Matt Martin comoderate.