6 weeks personally - but as you say based not science.
A transatlantic flight is of more concern - any
aviation docs on the list?
--- John Ryan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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