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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Clinical Challenges in Thoracic Surgery: Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Intro: Join Drs. Brian Louie, Peter White, and Megan Lenihan as they discuss the management of spontaneous pneumothorax in its various presentations.

Learning Objectives

- Management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax
- Management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax
- Operative intervention
- Nonoperative intervention
- Recognition and management of uncommon causes of pneumothorax

Referenced Material

ACCP guidelines for spontaneous pneumothorax:

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(15)38241-6/

BTS guidelines for spontaneous pneumothorax:

https://thorax.bmj.com/content/65/Suppl_2/ii18

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:20.0

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0:26.0

from leaders in the field.

0:41.6

Hello, we're the thoracic surgery team from Swedish Medical Center in Seattle,

0:46.8

and Megan Lennahan, one of the third-year residents.

0:50.0

I'm Peter White, one of the attending thoracic surgeons,

0:53.1

and I'm Brian Louie, one of the other attending thoracic surgeons.

0:57.0

We're going to jump right in with our first case.

1:00.0

This patient is an 18-year-old male who presented to the emergency department

1:04.4

with pluritic, right-sided chest pain that started while he was playing basketball.

1:09.1

He had no respiratory distress and was saturating normally on room air with normal vital signs.

1:14.7

The emergency department obtained a chest x-ray that showed a two-centimeter separation between

1:20.0

the chest wall and lung apex.

1:22.7

This is just a classic case presentation.

1:25.2

We have a young athletic, likely tall since he was playing basketball.

1:29.2

A male was sudden onset of chest pain with deep inspiration.

1:33.3

Before you even hear about the rest of the case, you're already thinking

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