For example, a couple of weeks ago we had a woman coming in with a tension pneumothorax.

The reason is concern that it can progress to tension pneumothorax, especially during the decompression phase of therapy.

Tension pneumothorax is usually treated with urgent needle decompression.

Sucking chest wounds and tension pneumothorax may result.

We have a left tension pneumothorax.

This condition is called tension pneumothorax.

Any open chest wound should be covered with an airtight seal, as it carries a high risk of leading to tension pneumothorax.

If it is untreated, blood flow can be interrupted and cause a drop in blood pressure known as tension pneumothorax.

In the tension pneumothorax and the adult respiratory distress scenarios, the simulated patient required mechanical ventilation.

Initial diagnosis can be challenging, as there are a number of differential diagnoses, including tension pneumothorax, and acute heart failure.

The only absolute contraindication to hyperbaric oxygen therapy is untreated tension pneumothorax.

Tension pneumothorax Through increased intrathoracic pressure, bloodflow to the heart is prevented (venous return).

In tension pneumothorax, X-rays are sometimes required if there is doubt about the anatomical location of the pneumothorax.

Untreated tension pneumothorax is an absolute contraindication.

"He's got a tension pneumothorax.

This is not equivalent to a tension pneumothorax, which is determined mainly by the constellation of symptoms, hypoxia, and shock.

The X-rays showed a tension pneumothorax, or an area of trapped air in the lungs, a potentially treatable condition if discovered in time.

Depending on the amount of blood or air in the pleural cavity, a collapsed lung can lead to respiratory and hemodynamic failure (tension pneumothorax).

Small spontaneous pneumothoraces do not always require treatment, as they are unlikely to proceed to respiratory failure or tension pneumothorax, and generally resolve spontaneously.

That X-ray, too, would have revealed a tension pneumothorax and, five minutes after the X-ray was finally taken, the patient stopped breathing and died.

The approach in treatment of PEA is to treat the underlying cause, if known (e.g. relieving a tension pneumothorax).

Tension pneumothorax: The build-up of air into one of the pleural cavities, which causes a mediastinal shift.

In the presence of air production, chest tube clogging can cause tension pneumothorax, and in the setting of infection, empyema.

A pneumothorax may form or be turned into a tension pneumothorax by mechanical ventilation, which may force air out of the tear in the lung.

Cardiac tamponade, tension pneumothorax, hemothorax, etc.