Critical Care

official impact factor 4.60
Search for
Advanced search
Critical Care
Tools
Letter

Pleural drainage: an evolving area – authors' response

Kulgit Singh1*, Shi Loo2 and Rinaldo Bellomo3

Author Affiliations

1 Consultant, Department of Anaesthesiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

2 Senior Consultant, Department of Anaesthesiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

3 Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Director of Intensive Care Research, Department of Intensive Care, Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

For all author emails, please log on.

Critical Care 2004, 8:139 doi:10.1186/cc2820

Published: 16 February 2004

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

We would like to thank Dr Kelly [1] for his interest in our recent article [2] on the use of central venous catheters for pleural drainage. His comments add to those recently highlighted by MacDuff and Grant [3].