Understanding Tension Pneumothorax
Understanding Tension Pneumothorax
Create a book that shows the mechanism (Step by Step with pictures) and effects of a tension pneumothorax.
Be sure to use the “Academic Terms” in your book. Be sure to include the signs and symptoms typically present in a pneumothorax. Be sure to include the why and how of those signs and symptoms.
Please use color. Blood always looks better red.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYMcyyNMYrQ
Academic Terms to be used:
Pneumothorax
Open/Tension (external) pneumothorax
Tension pneumothorax
Sucking Chest Wound
Visceral and Parietal pleurae
Pleural pressure
*Causes
*Signs and Symptoms and why/how on all of them.
Diaphragm
Jugular Vein Distention
Ankle Edema
Tracheal Shift
Percussion
Auscultation