Abstract
The word “pneumothorax” is used several times a day in no less than a dozen of disciplines, not only in ICUs. It is seen in trauma, pre-hospital medicine, emergency rooms, anesthesiology, pulmonology, pediatrics, thoracic surgery, after any procedure, including acupuncture, can be debated in internal medicine, geriatrics, even palliative care, spaceship medicine and world medicine again.
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Lichtenstein, D.A. (2016). BLUE-Protocol and Pneumothorax. In: Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15371-1_27
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