11. Figure 7 shows your final setup.
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Dr. Jeong is an emergency medicine resident at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey.
Dr. McNamee is chief resident of the emergency medicine residency at St. Joseph’s.
Dr. Rosenberg is chair of the department of emergency medicine, chief of geriatrics emergency medicine, and chief of palliative medicine at St. Joseph’s.
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3 Responses to “How To Use Continuous Wall Suction for Paracentesis”
October 22, 2015
tylerTried this using the red cardinal suction canisters, which have liners. Could not get it to work. The liner gets sorta sucked up in the distal (patient) canister, and fluid kinda flows through it into the proximal (wall) canister, which fills up and cuts off suction at the valve. Is this brand dependent?
October 23, 2015
Jordan JeongHey Tyler, I think I’m following what you are describing but I do not believe it is brand dependent as we use the blue cardinal suction canisters. However we don’t have/use soft liners. This may be causing your issue. Although as long as the tubes are hooked up to the correct ports it should work. I’d like to help you get this working though. I use it all the time and it makes life much easier for me at least.
March 10, 2019
Angel FarroHello, I am a emergency medicine physician from Perú, and my question is about the proped pressure of the suction that you recommend, and the time when a volume of 5 liters can be extracted. Thank you.