Response: Letter to the editor: The small (14F) percutaneous catheter (P-CAT) versus large (28-32F) open chest tube for traumatic hemothorax: A multicenter randomized clinical trial

Comment

Narong Kulvatunyou et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022.

. 2022 Sep 1;93(3):e126-e127.

doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000003685. Epub 2022 May 25.

No abstract available

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The small (14 Fr) percutaneous catheter (P-CAT) versus large (28-32 Fr) open chest tube for traumatic hemothorax: A multicenter randomized clinical trial.
Kulvatunyou N, Bauman ZM, Zein Edine SB, de Moya M, Krause C, Mukherjee K, Gries L, Tang AL, Joseph B, Rhee P. Kulvatunyou N, et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 Nov 1;91(5):809-813. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000003180. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021. PMID: 33843831 Clinical Trial.
Letter to the editor: The small (14 Fr) percutaneous catheter (P-CAT) versus large (28-32 Fr) open chest tube for traumatic hemothorax: A multicenter randomized clinical trial.
Hylands M, Gomez D, Beckett A. Hylands M, et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 Sep 1;93(3):e125. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000003647. Epub 2022 May 25. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022. PMID: 35610739 Clinical Trial. No abstract available.

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