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1. Blunt trauma:
Answer
Occurs when the chest strikes or is struck by an object (internaldamage greater than
external)
ex: being pinned between 2 machines
2. Penetrating trauma:
Answer Open injury in which a foreign object impales or passesthrough the body tissues
ex: gunshot wound
3. Pneumothorax:
Answer complete or partial collapse of a lung as a result of an accumulation of air in the
pleural space
4. Tension pneumothorax:
Answer
The continued accumulation of air in the pleural space causes:
- mediastinal shift
- Tracheal deviation
- Compression of the lung on the affected side
5. Hemothorax:
Answer
when blood accumulates in the pleural space resulting from injuryto the chest wall,
diaphragm, lung, blood vessels, or mediastinum
- requires immediate insertion of a chest tube for evacuation of the blood
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