Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2022
Conservative management of traumatic pneumothoraces: A retrospective cohort study.
Traumatic pneumothoraces (T-PTXs) are traditionally managed with an intercostal catheter (ICC), despite little evidence for this. Success with conservative management of primary spontaneous PTX has been demonstrated, and our ED has adopted a conservative approach where safe for all PTX. ⋯ Our data support conservative management of selected T-PTXs and shows a need for a prospective randomised trial to further examine this intervention.