September 18, 2012 — With trauma patients, it is traditional to decompress tension pneumothorax by quickly inserting a needle at the second intercostal space (ICS) in the midclavicular line. However, ...

Tension pneumothorax remains a critical, life-threatening complication in trauma care, arising when air accumulates under pressure in the pleural cavity. Effective management requires rapid diagnosis ...

Pneumothorax (PTX) is a life-threatening complication, with higher incidence in very low birth weight infants. PTX is usually diagnosed when signs of tension PTX develop, and when life-saving surgical ...

Credit: Getty Images Being male, tall, and thin is hypothesized to increase the chance of having a PSP because of “higher distention pressures at the lung apex,” which may lead to bleb and bullae ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ambulatory management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax reduced the duration of hospital stay and readmissions ...

THIS study was undertaken with the main purpose of determining the etiologic background and the precipitating factors in cases of nontraumatic spontaneous pneumothorax among hospitalized military ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The prevalence and incidence of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax among patients with chronic obstructive ...

Dr. John Aho and Sasha Gentling's startup company, Pneumeric, based in Rochester, has a simple solution to improve how medical teams treat patients' emergency condition of pneumothorax brought on by a ...

According to a new study, patients with connective tissue disease-associated interstitial disease (CTD-ILD) had significantly higher mortality rates and worse 10-year survival rates than patients who ...

To the Editor: The purpose of this communication is to alert the reader to a serious hazard designed into the early models of the "Hope" resuscitator (manufactured by Ohio Chemical and Surgical ...

Pneumothorax Approximately 35% of premenopausal women diagnosed with primary spontaneous pneumothorax meet criteria for catamenial pneumothorax. Differentiating between spontaneous pneumothorax and ...

Using accessory muscles implies that the forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) is decreased to 30% of normal, which is usually between 1.0 and 1.5 liters per second. In such cases, a sitting ...