Bedside tracer gas technique accurately predicts outcome in aspiration of spontaneous pneumothorax
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Bedside tracer gas technique accurately predicts outcome in aspiration of spontaneous pneumothorax.
BACKGROUND There is no technique in general use that reliably predicts the outcome of manual aspiration of spontaneous pneumothorax. We have hypothesised that the absence of a pleural leak at the time of aspiration will identify a group of patients in whom immediate discharge is unlikely to be complicated by early lung re-collapse and have tested this hypothesis by using a simple bedside tracer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.56.8.617