Accidentally created tension pneumothorax in patient with primary spontaneous pneumothorax - Confirmation of the experimental studies, putting into question the classical explanation

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 170-173

  Subotich, D ^a   Mandarich, D ^a  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AERATION; APNEA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BALLOON; CASE REPORT; CYANOSIS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PLEURA CAVITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIMARY SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CENTER; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RESUSCITATION; SHUNTING; TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX; TUBE;

ANIMALS; CHEST TUBES; CLINICAL TRIALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; LUNG; MEDICAL ERRORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PNEUMOTHORAX; SUCTION;

ANIMALIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 7944231831     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.04.025     Document Type: Article

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