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How emergency physicians choose chest tube size for traumatic pneumothorax or hemothorax: a comparison between 28Fr and smaller tube

Most traumatic pneumothoraxes and hemothoraxes can be managed non-operatively by means of chest tube thoracostomy. This study aimed to investigate how emergency physicians choose chest tube size and whether chest tube size affects patient outcome. We reviewed medical charts of patients who underwent...

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Autores principales: Terada, Takafumi, Nishimura, Tetsuro, Uchida, Kenichiro, Hagawa, Naohiro, Esaki, Maiko, Mizobata, Yasumitsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nagoya University 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32273633
http://dx.doi.org/10.18999/nagjms.82.1.59