I'm Anton Helman.

And I'm Teresa Chair.

And this is the Journal Jam podcast,

where we blend interviews with leading researchers

of important emergency medicine journal articles.

With the annals of emergency medicine

and academic life in emergency medicine, joint global emergency medicine journal articles. With the annals of emergency medicine and academic life in emergency medicine,

joint global emergency medicine journal.

And the best of crowdsourced social media-based opinions of emergency medicine providers

from around the world.

In this month's journal jam podcast, we're going to be talking about outpatient management

of pneumothoroses. The paper that going to be talking about outpatient management of pneumothorcese.

The paper that we'll be talking about in particular is entitled ambulatory management of large

spontaneous pneumothorces with pigtail catheters, and this is a study out of France with the lead

author Fannie Voisin. Now, it makes sense that the treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax would lend itself

well to ambulatory management, since patients are usually young and otherwise healthy, and the

mortality and morbidity from these air leaks are really very low.

Most patients would rather be managed as an outpatient rather than admitted to hospital,

and sending home these patients will probably end up saving the system resource and money.

So, Anton, I think that one of the things that we know for sure is that for asymptomatic patients

who have a small pneumothorax, we know what to do with those.

The British Therastic Society, the American College of Chess Physicians, and their guidelines

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