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Evaluation of performance of two different chest tubes with either a sharp or a blunt tip for thoracostomy in 100 human cadavers

BACKGROUND: Emergent placement of a chest tube is a potentially life-saving procedure, but rate of misplacement and organ injury is up to 30%. In principle, chest tube insertion can be performed by using Trocar or Non-trocar techniques. If using trocar technique, two different chest tubes (equipped...

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Autores principales: Ortner, Clemens M, Ruetzler, Kurt, Schaumann, Nikolaus, Lorenz, Veit, Schellongowski, Peter, Schuster, Ernst, Salem, Ramez M, Frass, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22300972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-20-10