If confirmation of safe NG tube placement requires a chest x-ray (CXR), this must be interpreted by competent staff. This study aimed to establish whether documentation of CXRs by medical registrars ...

Introduction A 2011 Patient Safety Alert for nasogastric tubes (NGT) highlighted only 31% of junior doctors had received formal guidance or training on the use of chest x-ray (CXR) for confirming NGT ...

Chest X-ray confirmed left tension pneumothorax (figure 1). Blood samples showed normal haemogram, coagulation and inflammatory parameters. The patient was then treated with oxygen therapy and ...

Placement of a chest tube may be necessary for management of pleural space disease in mammals. This column describes two accepted techniques for thoracostomy tube placement in the dog. A ...