症例 challenge · Respiratory / Emergency / Thoracic surgery · teaching

Pneumothorax — Management Pathway · case challenge

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Case #1Respiratory / Emergency / Thoracic surgery

📋 Case data

Tension pneumothorax?Tension pneumothorax

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Step 1 / 1 · Tension pneumothorax?

Is this a tension pneumothorax?

💡 Tension pneumothorax (a clinical emergency): respiratory distress + hypotension, tracheal deviation, JVD, absent breath sounds and hyper-resonance on the affected side. It is a clinical diagnosis — do not wait for imaging.

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