Exam 23: Pneumothorax

A 6-foot-tall, 140-pound, 28-year-old female patient has come to the emergency department with a complaint of a sudden sharp pain in the right upper chest followed by shortness of breath. The pain originated while she participated in deep breathing exercises in a yoga class. The physician has determined that she has a 15% pneumothorax. How should the pneumothorax be classified?

Which of the following are anatomic alterations that occur when a person has a pneumothorax? 1) The lung on the affected side collapses. 2) The visceral and parietal pleura separate. 3) The visceral pleura adheres to the parietal pleura. 4) The chest wall moves outward.

Which of the following hemodynamic indices will be found in a patient with a large hemothorax?

A sucking chest wound would be classified as a(n) _____ pneumothorax.

An iatrogenic pneumothorax may be caused by all of the following EXCEPT:

According to the way gas enters the pleural space, a pneumothorax will be classified as: 1) intrinsic. 2) extrinsic. 3) open. 4) closed.

After a patient experienced four pneumothoraces of her right lung over a 24-month period, the physician recommended a procedure to reduce the occurrence of future pneumothoraces. Which procedure would the physician have recommended?

Which type of untreated pneumothorax is considered to be the most serious?

A 17-year-old male has been brought to the hospital because he felt short of breath after being tackled in a football game. A chest radiograph shows a broken rib and a 20% pneumothorax in the right lung. Which of the following conditions would be present?

Which of the following chest assessment findings would be expected in a patient with a tension pneumothorax?

If the patient has a tension pneumothorax, all of the following chest radiograph findings would be expected EXCEPT:

What is the primary cause of hypotension in a patient with a large pneumothorax?

A patient had a penetrating knife wound to her chest wall that resulted in a valvular pneumothorax. What is another term for this condition?

A 40-year-old patient requires placement of a thoracostomy chest tube. All of the following are recommended for the procedure EXCEPT:

Which type of pneumothorax would result from the rupture of bulla on the surface of a lung?

A patient has a pneumothorax with a sucking chest wound resulting in the movement of gas from one lung to another. This is called:

A pneumothorax manifests itself clinically as a primary _____ disorder.