Tension PTX
You've done a bowel case for a perfed DU in an otherwise young healthy guy who took too much naproxen...
At the end of the case, you put in a triple lumen with ultrasound, but still manage to get a little hole in the pleura...
Patient extubated and in PACU, develops shortness of breath... can anyone walk me through the physiology of how this patient could develop a tension PTX if he's spontaneously breathing and not positive pressure ventilated... ?
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Tension PTX
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