Ultrasound What Is A Pigtail Catheter
101 Skills: Percutaneous Pigtail Catheter Placement The pigtail catheter offers reliable treatment of pneumothoraces and simple effusions and is a safe and less invasive alternative to tube thoracostomy. Placement of a Pigtail Catheter Pigtail catheter is small intercostal drainage tube used in loculated pleural effusion/ Pneumothorax, Malignant pleural effusion. SKATER Drainage Catheter We report an extremely rare complication of lung penetration by the pigtail catheter through two lobes of the right lung. ...