Pneumothorax for Nursing(collapsed lung) Animation, Treatment, Decompression, Pathophysiology

Pneumothorax is a condition that nursing students will encounter during their careers as nurses.

We discuss basic pathophysiology of pneumothorax, needle decompression, treatments, and xray findings, and treatments.

Chest tubes can be intimidating for new nurses but with a bit of practice the nursing care for chest tubes can become second nature.



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[bestusernameever]

I had severe chest pains several months back and my parents shrugged it off as "bad posture" and "inflammation". It got better until it suddenly came back a few days ago. My parents originally shrugged it off again, until I insisted on finding a doctor, who immediately referred me to an emergency room. Got diagnosed with pneumothorax a few hours later and got surgery the next day. Will need to do another, more comprehensive surgery in half a month's time.

Parents. Listen to your kids when they say they need medical help.

[lep]

Here because of CJ McCollum's injury. Praying for CJ's recovery.🙏

[Ray-sekm]

Excellent thank you.
six broken ribs, broken shoulder and wrist along with a collapsed lung after a fall from the ladder. Feels like Armageddon my friend.

[Elena-bkfs]

a loved one went thru a traumatic incident and has pneumothorax as a result. he’s coming home today and has been doing great with his lung treatment. very informative video, thank you!

[jmvargasme]

Having a chest tube dug inside of me between my ribs 3 times was the worst pain ever in my life . now wearing masks because of covid I know my left lung is collapsed. It been 14 years since I've had pneumothorax I don't want to go through that pain again.

[KeilaQuinteroGonzalez]

Currently in Med Surg for my nursing program, this was the perfect, simple explanation I was looking for, thank you!!

[NurseMurse]

great video! Very informative and love the visuals!

[notoriousdip]

i was unfortunate enough to have expericed a collapsed lung after a 6 story fall, the only thing that hurt as much as breaking my back was when they Stabbed me to re inflate it... beyond Pain! Havn't walked since...

[salatatoe]

I remember sitting in class in october 2018, and randomly starting to feel pain in the lung area. The pain was increasing and in my mind I started freaking out. In the end my lung had collapsed to the point where I had problems talking proparly. I sounded like someone kicked a ball in my stomach. I called my mom, we went to the doctor, and got the situation cleared up. We drove to the hospital and got the news that my lung was good enough not to operate. I had to stay for one night tho.

My next collapse, which was much weaker, was a month later. No need to go to the hospital.

In 2019 I had no collapses.

In 2020 I've had three so far. July, august and september. My last one lasted for three days.

[michaell]

Had this exsact thing happen to me outta the blue over a week later a pretty major surgery im home was the most painful and uncomfertable thing ive ever exsperanced in my life

[noirshiesty]

Here for CJ McCulloms Lung Injury praying for a recovery

[GOLDENPKG]

I’m here from the engineer who survived his 69 car freight becoming a runaway and flew off a curve into a neighborhood in California in May 1989. Crazy how he survived with a collapsed lung and broken ribs.

[shipmastershadowofintent]

I Injured my chest and I had breathing problems and I ended up bruising my ribs and the bottom of my left lung has a minor collasped on treatments so re-expand my lung this video helped with my understanding

[desireechoate]

Wow thank you made that really simple to understand!

[itchydez]

Cheers for the video. Damn informative, short and sweet.

Thanks!

[ayushmalkoti]

Sir
I had Pneumothorax 3rd time in 2 years. Now the doctor has put one chemical through chest tube pipe to stick lungs and lung membrane together so that it never happens again.

[lamardizzle]

I went through this in the 5th grade I’m scared to go through this been going through so much anxiety it feels like a I’ve graduated but it’s been a long term worry….please somebody will I be okay, if it’s been a

[Patrick-xofq]

my left lung collapsed afew days ago I didn't even know, just felt shortness of breath and shallow breathing. Drove to hospital and they did a chest x-ray and told me. put on oxygen and went to emergency surgery straight away.. the pain the next day with the drain in was almost unbearable at times. Multiple painkillers didn't even work ... Oxyconten or oxynorm was the only one that helped the pain.. never want to have that Operation again it is horrible

[EJSKATE]

I do not want someone opening me like a pop can.. suppose I’ll wait it out

[p.haugen]

Undervent surgery for this yesterday morning. Was hooked up to the box you saw in the picture for 2 weeks and connected to a wall which meant I was able to move about 10 feet in any direction. Got a newer one on Monday that doesn't need to be hooked up, but it didn't really help much so they went in an scraped the damn thing to pieces.. But now I'm hopefully able to go home in a day or two, unless it collapses again when they take out the tube..