What is a common complication of pleurodynia?

Describe a secondary spontaneous pneumothorax.

Which of the following procedures would you recommend to assess your mechanically ventilated stable patient who has had a chest tube in place for 48 hours and has bubbling in the water-seal chamber during peak inspiration?

  1.  What is chamber C connected to? [A] 2.  What is chamber C used for? [B] 3. What is chamber A connected to? [C]  4.  What do you have to add to chamber A periodically? [D] 5.  What is chamber B called? [E] 6.  What do bubbles present in chamber B indicate? [F] 7. How many cm H2O should the wall suction be set to? [G] 8. At what pressure should the water in chamber A be maintained at? [H]

What are the functions of a chest tube in a patient with chest trauma that causes bleeding and pneumothorax?1. To measure the rate of bleeding2. To improve ventilation3. To allow lung reexpansion4. To allow for application of bleeding control medication

Pleural fluid with a total protein concentration of less than ____________ of the serum total protein level is one of the indications of transudative pleural effusion.

Which of the following are typical complications of thoracentesis?1. Infection2. Intercostal artery laceration3. Rib fracture4. Pneumothorax

What type of pleural problem is most likely to develop from rupture of the thoracic duct?

Which of the following medications is known to cause drug-induced pleural disease?1. Bleomycin2. Amiodarone3. Advair4. Vilanterol

In the short run, a profit-maximizing firm in a price-taker market will definitely stop production if