https://phemcast.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/tp2-final-11_11_2017-00-30.mp3
Where can you undertake decompression of a pneumothorax?
Be particularly careful when using the 2nd intercostal space mid-clavicular line that you are sufficiently lateral. For example, here are the locations identified as ‘2nd ICS mid clavicular line’ amongst 25 EM physicians in a 2005 EMJ paper.
The Three Kings: George Clooney’s recommended approach to decompression of a tension pneumothorax. Note – again please do not use this location!
Devices used for decompression:
Dressings available for covering an open pneumothorax +/- thoracostomy in a spontaneously breathing patient:
References