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Sucking chest wound

July 15, 2010 Cliff

The old idea of three-sided taping of an occlusive dressing to treat open / sucking chest wounds has been replaced with just closing the hole with an occlusive dressing and treating any tension pneumothorax. If you don’t have an alternative then you can use an adhesive defibrillator pad to achieve this.

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