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What color is the drainage from a chest tube with a a pleural effusion?
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Depends: caused bybwhat? Trauma- bloody Cancer- bloody or yellow serous, or sero- sanguinous. Infection - bloody or cloudy or pus or serous
Answered 10/2/2018
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