Chest tubes for transudative effusions in vented patients? Show us the data!
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THIS STUDY HAS BEEN RETRACTED. Kupfer et al looked retrospectively at 168 vented patients with transudative pleural effusions at Maimonides in Brooklyn. The half that got chest tubes (with an average of 1,200 mL drained) spent 3.8 days on the vent, vs 6.5 days for the group that got only thoracentesis, with no complications reported. That's interesting, but concluding and titling the paper "Chest Tube Drainage of Transudative Effusions Hastens Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation" without a randomized trial seems a bit, well, hasty.
Chest tubes for transudative effusions in vented patients? Show us the data!
Chest tubes for transudative effusions in…
Chest tubes for transudative effusions in vented patients? Show us the data!
THIS STUDY HAS BEEN RETRACTED. Kupfer et al looked retrospectively at 168 vented patients with transudative pleural effusions at Maimonides in Brooklyn. The half that got chest tubes (with an average of 1,200 mL drained) spent 3.8 days on the vent, vs 6.5 days for the group that got only thoracentesis, with no complications reported. That's interesting, but concluding and titling the paper "Chest Tube Drainage of Transudative Effusions Hastens Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation" without a randomized trial seems a bit, well, hasty.