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Dr. Sean Stuart joins Claire and Morgan for the first in a two-part series about chest tubes. Dr. Stuart is a Navy emergency medicine physician and is the Research Director of the Combat Trauma Research Group.
This first episode covers a lot of ground, from a detailed discussion of the procedure itself to a thorough exploration of a recent paper contrasting the efficacy of traditional chest tubes against pigtail catheters.\\xa0
Dr. Stuart calls out a couple important pearls, notably that oxygenation status is a very late finding for tension hemo/pneumothorax, and separately, that breath sounds are unreliable in determining whether a patient has this type of injury.
A recent paper gets some attention in this episode, and really illustrates why it's important to dig deeper than the abstract and conclusion:\\xa0
You can find this paper through your free (to the military) institutional login via OpenAthens. There's also a good summary at criticalcarenow.com.
Have a listen and let us know what you think!