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Fig.2

From: Interpleural location of chest drain on ultrasound excludes pneumothorax and associates with a low degree of chest drain foreshortening on the antero-posterior chest X-ray

Fig.2

Patient on VV-ECMO with bilateral pneumothoraces has a steep ascending right CD (ɑ˃50°) with a CDI of 0.97 (16.49/12 + 5), and no signs of a pneumothorax on CUS of the right hemothorax. The left CD has a CDI of 0.49 (10.23/16 + 5 cm), foreshortening due to dorsal malposition and a left ventral pneumothorax on CUS (Fig. 5)

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