In message <[log in to unmask]
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>I have used this method on a number of occasions, I think after a posting by
>Matthew Cooke to this site. The patients did not like it. They generally
>had tocough very deeply or almost Valsalva to expel air. I think you are
>also on very dodgy ground suggesting you can equate size of pneumothorax and
>number of coughs needed to expel all the air. Air bubbling or coughing after
>the procedure could merely mean that you have not completely treated the
>pneumo.
>Anyone else have experience of the method?
>
>Phil Davies
>Cheltenham
>
The patients do find it a little uncomfortable, but it speeds up the
procedure. On the occasions when I deal with this problem, I aspirate
the last bit.
The two techniques are not mutually exclusive, of course.
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Stephen Hughes
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