Should central venous catheters be used to drain pleural effusions?

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Letter

Andrew MacDuff¹ and Ian S Grant²

¹Locum Registrar Respiratory Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland

²Consultant Intensive Care Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Critical Care 2004, 8:56doi:10.1186/cc2447


Published:	2 January 2004

We read with interest the article by Singh and coworkers [1] describing the use of central venous catheters to drain pleural effusions.