Sentence examples for needle decompression from inspiring English sources

5 Though the most common technique is needle aspiration and needle decompression, there are various devices which are used to aspirate and decompress pneumothoraces and pleural effusions starting from venous cannula to spinal needles to some custom made devices.

"To make it short, I gave this one guy a needle decompression just for the hell of it," he said.

Tension pneumothorax, a major preventable cause of battlefield death, often arises from chest trauma and is treated by needle decompression to release trapped air from the pleural cavity.

Prehospital interventions included a needle decompression on the right side.

EMS noted difficult ventilation with the Combitube and the King LT® was placed following needle decompression.

In our study, none of the patients were treated with miniarthrotomy or needle decompression.

Medically, condoms can be used to cover endovaginal ultrasound probes, or in field chest needle decompressions they can be used to make a one-way valve.

Chapman offered some packing tips: bring chest seals, needle-decompression kits, and tourniquets.

"I will never get to Whiskey level," she said calmly to Pat, thinking of needle chest decompression and clearing airways, both of which she dreaded.

Needle bowel decompression has been previously described for reduction of incarcerated hernias but only performed under laparotomy and/or followed by right colectomy [1, 15, 16].

Commonly taught needle thoracostomy decompression can potentially fail due to mechanical obstruction or kinking, can cause iatrogenic injury, can be incorrectly sited in 40% of patients and is expected to fail in 42.5% of patients due to the chest wall thickness [ 13- 16].