Which patients with a parapneumonic effusion need a chest tube
2018
Hospitalized patients with pneumonia who develop a complicated parapneumonic effusion or empyema need to undergo chest tube placement.
Parapneumonic effusion is a pleural effusion that forms concurrently with bacterial or viral pneumonia. Up to 40% of patients hospitalized with pneumonia develop a
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