Intercostal drainage tube or intracardiac drainage tube?

Although insertion of chest drain tubes is a common medical practice, there are risks associated with this procedure, especially when inexperienced physicians perform it. Wrong insertion of the tube has been known to cause morbidity and occasional mortality. We report a case where the left ventricle...

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Autores principales: Anitha, N., Kamath, S. Ganesh, Khymdeit, Edison, Prabhu, Manjunath
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27397467
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9784.185561
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description Although insertion of chest drain tubes is a common medical practice, there are risks associated with this procedure, especially when inexperienced physicians perform it. Wrong insertion of the tube has been known to cause morbidity and occasional mortality. We report a case where the left ventricle was accidentally punctured leading to near-exsanguination. This report is to highlight the need for experienced physicians to supervise the procedure and train the younger physician in the safe performance of the procedure.
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spelling pubmed-49719912016-08-25 Intercostal drainage tube or intracardiac drainage tube? Anitha, N. Kamath, S. Ganesh Khymdeit, Edison Prabhu, Manjunath Ann Card Anaesth Interesting Images Although insertion of chest drain tubes is a common medical practice, there are risks associated with this procedure, especially when inexperienced physicians perform it. Wrong insertion of the tube has been known to cause morbidity and occasional mortality. We report a case where the left ventricle was accidentally punctured leading to near-exsanguination. This report is to highlight the need for experienced physicians to supervise the procedure and train the younger physician in the safe performance of the procedure. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4971991/ /pubmed/27397467 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9784.185561 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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