Practicals · Tropical Medicine · Respiratory Medicine
Diagnostic and therapeutic thoracocentesis (pleural tap)
- Type
- Procedure
- Also called
- pleural tap
Videos and resources
- VideoThoracentesis2:51
- VideoThoracentesis Medical Animation1:10
- +66 more links
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Where the curriculum asks for it
“Diagnostic and therapeutic thoracocentesis, abdominal paracentesis” ( NMC curriculum, page 3)