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A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR INSERTING INTERCOSTAL CATHETERS
Author(s) -
Pollard C. W.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1985.tb00911.x
Subject(s) - medicine , catheter , dissection (medical) , blunt , pleural cavity , intercostal muscle , surgery , anatomy , respiratory system
A new instrument is described which allows blunt dissection through the muscles of the chest wall to the pleural cavity followed by subsequent passage of a suitable catheter through the open jaws of the instrument.