• Prehosp Emerg Care · Jan 2013

    Case Reports

    Occult traumatic loculated tension pneumothorax--a sonographic diagnostic dilemma.

    • Brian J Burns and Gonzalo Aguirrebarrena.
    • Greater Sydney Area HEMS, Bankstown, Australia. bjburns@ambulance.nsw.gov.au
    • Prehosp Emerg Care. 2013 Jan 1;17(1):92-4.

    AbstractThis case outlines a rarely seen disease in prehospital emergency care-namely, a traumatic loculated tension pneumothorax. Prehospital thoracic ultrasound as part of a standard extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma (EFAST) algorithm failed to diagnose this life-threatening injury. We have subsequently added scanning the lateral chest wall in the fifth intercostal space to the algorithm.

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