Back in Dublin I find I am having to re-learn all about treating rugby
players ! Recent chap with a small traumatic right sided pneumothorax (10%)
following a knee in the back wants to fly on day 10 to Europe, about a 2
hour
flight.
How long do list members advise a patient should wait before flying ?
Bearing in mind Angus Wallace's moment of glory with the famous coathanger,
urinary catheter and bottle of water, certainly not the next day but 1 week
post re-expansion ? 2 weeks ? 6 weeks ?
And when would you let him play contact sport again ?
There is one very thin paper with a series of 12 people which is hardly woth
quoting but I can find little else based on sound evidence.
Dr John Ryan
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