• Chest · Jul 2018

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    Better With Ultrasound: Paracentesis.

    • Scott J Millington and Seth Koenig.
    • Intensive Care Unit, University of Ottawa/The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Electronic address: smillington@toh.ca.
    • Chest. 2018 Jul 1; 154 (1): 177-184.

    AbstractParacentesis is a commonly performed procedure and generally considered to be low risk. Despite its overall favorable safety profile, use of ultrasound has been demonstrated to reduce the incidence of complications, especially in higher risk patients. Many individual ultrasound techniques have been described in the literature, each with the goal of making paracentesis safer. This article presents a systematic approach for incorporating many of these tools into bedside practice and includes a series of illustrative figures and narrated video presentations to demonstrate the techniques described.Copyright © 2018 American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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