A prehospital paediatric tension viscerothorax presenting as a tension pneumothorax: a diagnostic dilemma.
This article reports a case of a paediatric pre-hospital tension viscerothorax, and it subsequent management. It also discusses the difficulty in diagnosing this condition in the pre-hospital arena.
Jones
Chris
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CareFlight Ltd (NSW), Barden Street, Northmead, Sydney, Australia.
Tzannes
Alex
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Reid
Cliff
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D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D017732:Air Ambulances; D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006549:Hernia, Diaphragmatic, Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008297:Male; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000150:complications; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D014781:Viscera / Q000293:injuries*