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How Much Negative Pressure Are We Generating During Thoracentesis?

Abdul Hamid Alraiyes, Fayez Kheir, Kassem Harris and Thomas R. Gildea
Ochsner Journal June 2017, 17 (2) 138-140;
Abdul Hamid Alraiyes
1Interventional Pulmonary Section, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
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Fayez Kheir
2Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care and Environmental Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
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Kassem Harris
1Interventional Pulmonary Section, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
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Thomas R. Gildea
3Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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