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This prompts the patient to limit physical activity, to draw shallow breaths, to inhibit vigorous coughin, and to avoid stretching the injured pulmonary tissue by lying with the affected side in the lateral decubitus position.
The position of the tube needs to be rechecked with a bronchoscope after the patient is in the lateral decubitus position and prior to trocar incisions.
 
 
 
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