Category: Trauma
Keywords: chest tube, hemothorax, pigtail (PubMed Search)
Posted: 10/4/2024 by Robert Flint, MD
(Emailed: 10/7/2024)
(Updated: 10/7/2024)
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The authors reviewed the literature surrounding use of pigtail catheters for traumatic hemothorax and found:
“these data support using percutaneous thoracostomy as a safe and reliable treatment option for hemodynamically stable adult patients with traumatic hemothorax and are backed by major trauma society guidelines including the Eastern Society for the Surgery of Trauma and the Western Trauma Association.1,3 It has the added benefit of the insertion being less painful with the understanding that the percutaneous thoracostomy can always be upsized to a thoracostomy tube.”
Owodunni, Oluwafemi P.Moore, Sarah A.Hynes, Allyson M. et al.
Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 0, Issue 0