Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a medical robotic system to relieve a life-threatening tension pneumothorax in the chest cavity. The researchers are presenting ...

Tension pneumothorax remains a critical, life-threatening complication in trauma care, arising when air accumulates under pressure in the pleural cavity. Effective management requires rapid diagnosis ...

Some symptoms of tension pneumothorax include shortness of breath, sharp chest pain, and blue or discolored skin, lips, or nails. Tension pneumothorax is a medical emergency. Tension pneumothorax is a ...

Pneumothorax, commonly called a collapsed lung, can be painful and in certain situations, may be life-threatening. In a healthy body, the lungs are touching the walls of the chest. A pneumothorax ...

For trauma patients who require emergent chest decompression, prehospital needle decompression (PHND) was associated with a lower risk of mortality compared with tube thoracostomy, a cohort study ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received numerous reports of pneumothorax events associated with feeding tube placement procedures performed by using two of the three FDA-approved ...

Death – although mortality from pneumothorax is generally low, with rates of 1.3 and 0.6 per million per year for men and women respectively. Secondary pneumothorax has a higher rate of mortality than ...