TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pneumothorax A1 - Sergel, Michelle A1 - Krieger, Brian A2 - Sherman, Scott C. A2 - Weber, Joseph M. A2 - Schindlbeck, Michael A. A2 - Rahul G., Patwari PY - 2014 T2 - Clinical Emergency Medicine AB - Tension pneumothorax is a clinical diagnosis that should be considered in any patient with shock and respiratory distress. Treatment should not be delayed for radiologic confirmation.Appropriate treatment of a tension pneumothorax is a needle thoracostomy, followed by tube thoracostomy.Unless a pneumothorax is spontaneous, small (<20%), minimally symptomatic, and primary, definitive treatment is tube thoracostomy. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/13 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1101224590 ER -