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Seizure and Altered Mental Status After Thoracentesis: Cerebral Air Embolism
Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023 Cerebral air embolism (CAE) is a rare life-threatening condition. It may clinically mimic acute ischemic stroke by decreasing cerebral perfusion pressure and brain tissue oxygenation and may cause impaired consciousness and epileptic seizures.
Çağrı Safa Buyurgan +2 more
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Intercostal artery pseudoaneurysm following thoracentesis: multi-modal imaging and treatment
BMC Medical Imaging, 2019 BackgroundA pseudoaneurysm occurs as the result of a contained rupture of an arterial wall, yielding a perfused sac that communicates with the arterial lumen.
Kaitlyn P. Casper +2 more
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Ensuring Basic Competence in Thoracentesis
Respiration, 2019 Background: Trocar pigtail catheter thoracentesis (TPCT) is a common procedure often performed by junior physicians. Simulation-based training may effectively train physicians in the procedure prior to performing it on patients.
Kasper Møller Boje Rasmussen +6 more
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Repeat Thoracentesis in Hepatic Hydrothorax and Non-Hepatic Hydrothorax Effusions: A Case-Control Study [PDF]
Respiration, 2018 Background Repeat thoracentesis for symptom control is offered to patients with refractory hepatic hydrothorax (HH) but the risk profile for this management strategy remains unclear.
S. Shojaee +4 more
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Reexpansion pulmonary edema following thoracentesis
The Journal of Association of Chest Physicians, 2016 Reexpansion pulmonary edema is an uncommon complication of the treatment of lung atelectasis, pleural effusion or pneumothorax and pathogenesis is unknown. An elderly male patient presented to us with right-sided pleural effusion. 2 h after thoracentesis,
Ansuman Mukhopadhyay +2 more
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Are we providing patient-centered care? Preferences about paracentesis and thoracentesis procedures [PDF]
Patient Experience Journal, 2014 Procedures performed at the bedside are as safe and less expensive than Interventional Radiology (IR) procedures. Patient preferences regarding location are rarely taken into account. Therefore, in this study we compared patient satisfaction with bedside
Jeffrey Barsuk +5 more
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Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 2023 Pleural effusion is common among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) but reported prevalence varies. Thoracentesis may improve respiratory status, however, indications for this are unclear.
Karen W. Fjæreide +6 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background Pleural infection is a complex condition with a considerable healthcare burden. The average hospital stay for pleural infection is 14 days. Current standard of care defaults to chest tube insertion and intravenous antibiotics.
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives Recurrent symptomatic effusions can be durably managed with pleurodesis or placement of indwelling pleural catheters. Recent pleurodesis trials have largely relied on lung re-expansion on post-thoracentesis radiograph as an inclusion criterion
M. Lester +6 more
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Polish Archives of Internal Medicine, 2022 INTRODUCTION Therapeutic thoracentesis is highly effective in providing symptomatic improvement in patients with large volume pleural effusion. However, some physiological effects of pleural fluid (PF) withdrawal have still not been fully elucidated ...
Monika Zielińska-Krawczyk +7 more
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