Chairs: Prof. Rafal Krenke (Laski, Poland), Prof. Coenraad Frederik Nicolaas Koegelenberg (Cape Town, South Africa)

Speakers: Dr Rachelle Asciak (Siggiewi, Malta), Dr Anand Sundaralingam (Oxford, United Kingdom), Dr Rahul Bhatnagar (Bristol, United Kingdom)

Topics:

1. How to avoid thoracentesis complications.
2. Chest Drain Insertion (which, when, how).
3. When and how to insert and remove it?

Learning objective(s):

• To provide information on how to prepare the patient for thoracentesis (important tips for prior patient assessment to avoid procedure complications) and how pleural puncture can be performed (diversity of needles, kits and techniques) and the indications and various techniques for drain insertion and IPC will be presented.
• Various aspects of proceeding with drain after insertion (suction, time of drainage and management of complications ) will be discussed.

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