Article Text
Prehospital care
A prehospital paediatric tension viscerothorax presenting as a tension pneumothorax: a diagnostic dilemma
Abstract
This article reports a case of a paediatric pre–hospital tension viscerothorax, and it subsequent management. It also dicusses the difficulty in diagnosing this condition in the pre-hospital arena.
- Cardiac care
- diagnosis
- nursing
- prehospital
- paediatrics
- paediatric injury
- trauma
- major trauma management
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Footnotes
Competing interests None.
Patient consent Obtained.
Ethics approval This study was conducted with the approval of the SSWAHS Ethics Review Committee (RPAH Zone) NSW Australia.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.