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Using a Seldinger Portex 12 Fr gauge is a lot kinder to the patient. I've only had one failure since my last Registrar (Peter Cutting) introduced them to me and now the whole hospital is using them!
 
The failure was last week the son of a local GP who had a spontaneous pneumothorax. The lung wouldn't reexpand despite using suction on the ward. He was then transferred to a cardio-thoracic centre and they put a "large" chest drain in. It still didn't work, so he's going for surgery.
 
Ray McGlone
A&E Consultant
Lancaster
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Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:51 PM
Subject: chest drains

I believe that the British Thoracic Society are about to modify their guidelines on the management of spontaneous pneumothorax, to recommend the use of size 10 - 14 French gauge chest drains as standard.

What are people's experience in using these, and are there any increased risks of kinking, blocking or of being insufficient diameter to cope with large air leaks?

 



David Vickery
Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Gloucestershire Royal NHS Trust


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