Big Tubes, Small Thinking
In the management of stable trauma patients, the automatic choice of large-bore chest tubes is driven more by habit, training, and perceived safety than by proven clinical superiority. Although larger tubes cause significantly more pain, current evidence suggests smaller tubes offer comparable outcomes without increasing complications, making default maximal invasiveness unnecessary in non-emergency cases.
Breaking the Cage
Chest trauma is one of the most common, and it includes a whole bunch of possible different injuries: some of them life-threatening, others less worrisome...
