Traumatic Pneumothorax; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
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How to Diagnose a Traumatic Pneumothorax
In the vast majority of cases, if not all, depending on the literature that you look at, the patient is going to complain of pleuritic chest pain. And alongside that pain, there is also likely to be some dyspnea. But what happens if this progresses towards attention? Well, as Simon mentioned a little earlier on, we need to be alert for this relentless progression of respiratory deterioration over a relatively prolonged period. In these spontaneously breathing patients, there is actually very little effect on the cardiovascular system beyond the tachycardia. The main complication we're likely to see in this group is hypoxia requiring supplementary oxygen. Now it's worth saying though that even hypoxia
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