RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Black Hills Life Flight nurses can now perform a more invasive procedure to treat collapsed lungs ...
Introduction Tension pneumothorax in children, although infrequently encountered, requires management with a high level of confidence and skill from the attending physician. Despite this, ...
Two “High Acuity, Low Occurrence” (HALO) procedures were suspended in June by NT Health due to a critical lack of clinical oversight and concerns the procedures had become unsafe as a result. But last ...
Tube thoracostomy is a minimally invasive procedure in which a drainage catheter is placed percutaneously into the pleural space. Equipment consists of a sterile set of instruments, local anesthetic, ...
Background: Open-window thoracostomy (OWT) is an effective life-saving treatment for refractory empyema. Nonetheless, the patients’ mental and physical suffering due to OWT is not minimal, and ...
‘You don’t let people fly a plane without the right training’: The Territory’s ambulance service has suspended the use of two medical procedures due a lack of clinical oversight. The NT News has ...
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Introduction Current Advanced Trauma Life Support guidelines recommend decompression for thoracic tension physiology using a 5-cm angiocatheter at the second ...