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sorry to bring up the dead on this one. Just got a chance to perform this on a trauma patient the other day. We only carry 1 each of the Thoracostomy and crich kits, I ended up using both a 14ga and a 12ga midax and midclavic. Guy ended up with a hemo-pneumo worsened by a ruptured diaphragm which would negate my decompressions minutes after performing em.
Anyways the poor :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored: took em like a champ and prolly would have taken a 10ga without complaint also