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CXR Essentials: Abnormal pacemaker lead position

The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.  

Over the next few weeks, we will be posting videos from the Chest X-Ray Essentials Course. This video helps identify aberrantly placed cardiac pacer leads and complications such as pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, hydrothorax, hemothorax, hydromediastinum and cardiac tamponade.

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Julian Dobranowski, MD FRCPC FCAR. Chief of Diagnostic Imaging at Niagara Health in Ontario, Canada. Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology, McMaster University. | Medmastery |

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