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Originally Posted by TF Kilo
10G with a flapper valve is what we would use. Obviously the proper definitive treatment is a chest tube, and we carried those as well. With a 1 way valve on a chest tube, why would you clamp it off? The doctors that taught me how to do the procedure said clamping is a bad thing...
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clamping is a bad thing...the fish valve is for the 10G needle.
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(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
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