Pigtail Catheter vs Large Bore Chest Tube for Pneumothorax
December 1, 2022
Background: Pneumothorax management is a common clinical condition in the emergency department (ED) occurring in patients of varying ages and caused by multiple etiologies, including...
Marco Torres
Ep 174 Is Less More? Saving EM and Traumatic Pneumothorax – Highlights from CAEP 2022
September 27, 2022
Emergency Medicine has undergone many changes over the last couple of decades and especially during the COVID pandemic. Most of these changes have been very...
Anton Helman
Traumatic Hemothorax: Pigtail vs Chest Tube
June 9, 2022
Background: Optimal management of pneumothorax and hemothorax with chest thoracostomy has been widely debated over the last decade. We no longer question the utility of...
Ep 158 Management of Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax
July 27, 2021
In this main episode podcast we discuss the conservative management of large spontaneous pneumothorax, when a pigtail chest tube with Heimlich valve is indicated, detection...
Journal Jam 2: Small Bore Chest Tube and Outpatient Management of Pneumothorax
December 9, 2014
It makes sense that the treatment of primary spnontaneous pneumothorax would lend itself well to outpatient management, since patients are usually young and otherwise healthy,...