Exam questionKROK 2Medicine ยท 2005
A 41 y.o. man complains of acute pain in the right side of the thorax and sudden increase of dyspnea following the lifting of heavy object. The patient's condition is serious: lips and mucous are cyanotic, breathing rate is 28 per min, pulse-122 bpm., AP- 80/40 mm Hg. There is tympanitis on percussion and weakened breathing on auscultaion on the right. S2 is accentuated over pulmonary artery. What is the urgent measure on the prehospital stage?
Answer options
- Oxygen inhalation
- Call for cardiologic team
- Air aspiration from the pleural cavity
- Epinephrine introduction
- Euphilline introduction
Correct answer
Air aspiration from the pleural cavity
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