147: Recognize, Decompress, Stabilize: Managing a Pneumothorax with Trauma Pete

Podcast: Rapid Response RN · Sarah Lorenzini

Opublikowano: 2025-10-10

Every trauma nurse knows this feeling: your stable patient suddenly starts to decompensate and instinct tells you there’s more to the story. Today’s case starts with a stable, post-arrest patient and ends in a full-blown tension pneumothorax. Hear why this patient went from stable to crashing in minutes, how delayed recognition changed the course of care, what diagnostics and assessments could have caught earlier. Trauma Pete breaks down the tell-tale signs, how it differs from a simple pneumothorax, and why it's so easy to miss in trauma patients. In this epis...