Assertion: pigtail catheter | /r/HasProperty | preferred
Facets:
value: due to lower cost
type: CAUSE
value: to large bore chest tubes
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: increasingly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: While rapid tube thoracostomy is still preferred in an unstable patient, pigtail catheters with Heimlich valves are increasingly preferred to large bore chest tubes in the treatment of pneumothoraces and simple pleural effusions due to their less traumatic less painful insertion and lower cost.