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Emergency care providers have a problem.
5% of all properly inserted needle catheters will experience kinking, occlusion, or complete dislodgement. This can prove fatal for a patient who otherwise would have successfully received life saving treatment.
"Traumatic PTX is a leading cause of preventable mortality in multi-trauma patients"
- Lanny F. Littlejohn, MD
"A tension PTX can also result if the catheter becomes dislodged, kinked blocked..."
- Inaba K. - Division of Trauma Surgery & Critical Care, University of California
"NT dislodgement may...be difficult to detect as the catheter may initially slide 'in and out' of the pleural space."
- D. Eiferman - The American Surgeon
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