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Safe Triangle
The safe triangle (or triangle of safety) is really a trapezium. In a 2005 study, 45% of doctors couldn't identify this region accurately. Don't be one of them.
Figure 1:
The safe triangle for inserting a chest drain. Redrawn and adapted from the
BTS pleural diseases guidelines.
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