Emergency treatment of tension pneumothorax?

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Tension pneumothorax refers to the formation of one-way valve after the rupture of lung bubble or bronchus. When inspiratory, air enters the pleural membrane. When breathing, the air cannot be discharged from the cavity, resulting in the continuous increase of pressure in the cavity, compression and atrophy of the lung, resulting in poor breathing and dyspnea. Emergency treatment of tension pneumothorax? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Emergency treatment of tension pneumothorax?

When the patient has this kind of situation, the most common method in emergency is to select a thick needle to pierce in the middle line of the second intercostal clavicle of the affected side to release the gas in the chest and relieve the symptoms at that time.

Closed thoracic drainage was performed immediately. A thoracic drainage tube was placed at the place with the highest air accumulation (usually placed at the middle line of clavicle in the second rib space of the affected side) to connect the water sealed bottle. Generally, the process of alveolar rupture repair was about a week. The drainage tube was placed for 3 to 7 days. When there was no bubble overflow, chest X-ray examination was performed. After closed observation for 1 day, If the patient does not have dyspnea, the drainage tube can be removed.

If necessary, thoracotomy should be performed. It is generally applicable to the thoracic closed drainage tube. After a week, there is a large amount of gas overflowing in the drainage tube, and the patient's conscious symptoms (dyspnea, chest tightness, shortness of breath) are not relieved. At this time, serious damage to the lung tissue should be considered, and surgical treatment should be performed immediately.

matters needing attention

Patients should pay attention to light diet, can't eat sour and spicy and heavy taste things, had better often drink some soup, chicken soup, bone soup, also can eat some pig lung soup. At the same time, it is suggested that patients should not smoke and drink iced drinks.