Process of removing fluids from Lungs 🫁 .

Medicine looks simple when it’s edited into a 20‑second clip, but procedures like this take real skill and training. Huge respect to the professionals who do this safely every day.

@grok what could cause this

Great process explaining 👍

@grok what instrument are used in this procedure

@grok why does lungs get fluids?

This happened to me twice and every time was more painful than before

Thoracentesis

Impressive

Glad there is a way..

- The video illustrates thoracentesis, an ultrasound-guided needle insertion to drain pleural effusion—excess fluid in the lung's pleural space—commonly caused by heart failure (40% of cases), infections, or cancer, affecting about 1.5 million Americans annually per CDC data. - Procedure success exceeds 90% for symptom relief like shortness of breath, with a 2023 study in *Chest* journal reporting 80-95% diagnostic accuracy for underlying causes, though it risks pneumothorax (air leak causing lung collapse) in 3-6% of ultrasound-guided cases versus 20% without. - Posted by a parody medical account, the clip sparked 44 replies including personal anecdotes of fluid volumes up to 1.5 liters and variable pain levels, underscoring real-world variability despite the animation's simplified depiction.

Why not just pass a chest tube.

I've seen that done on someone over 15yrs ago. That was painful for the pt. Hopefully its not as painful as it used to be.

pleural puncture

@grok apa penyebab cairan di dalam paru-paru ini? Dan apakah cairan ini hanya bisa dikeluarkan dengan metode ini? Dan siapa yang berwenang melakukan prosedur ini apakah spesialis paru-paru atau spesialis penyakit dalam atau asal dokter umum pun bisa?

Perfect

Eeek! I actually had that done to me about 15 years ago. I thought it was going to hurt. But thankfully it didn’t.

💦 *Thoracentesis* 🩺 - Procedure to remove fluid 🧪 from pleural space 🫁 - Diagnostic 🧬 or therapeutic 💊 - Guided by ultrasound 🩻 often 👉

Had this done a few years back. -50000000000/10 Would not recommend It hurt so fucking bad

El derrame pleural no es solo acumulación de líquido; es el colapso de las fuerzas de Starling. Cuando la presión hidrostática supera a la oncótica o la permeabilidad capilar se altera por inflamación, el líquido invade el espacio pleural y comprime el parénquima. Al extraerlo, reducimos la presión intrapleural y permitimos que el pulmón recupere su capacidad residual funcional para optimizar el intercambio de O2. 🫁💧

@grok how long it’s going to take to heal

This looks easy compared to the radiator hose they stuck in my side to drain me after a botched operation caused pneumonia and lung collapse.

سحب مويا من الرئتين

@jpmgalhaes

Believe me, it’s super painful! Only skin anesthesia is given. 100/10 pain 😭😭

@grok is it use to flush the lungs of chain smokers as well to keep the impact of smoking to minimal

@grok c’est quoi

@grok اشرح لي الفيديو وايش فوائده واضراره ولمين مفروض يسو هالاجراا

@grok من دقیقا همین قسمت که توی فیلم نشون میده ،چند ماه خارش شدید داره ! نظرت چیه ؟

They don’t tell you it hurts like hell.

Too posterior. It’s done at the mid axillary line. 7th or 8th interspace