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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Acute atraumatic peri-arrest tension gastrothorax presenting to the emergency department.

James Phelan, Rengarajan Subramanian, Adeep Krishnan Kutty Menon

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

James PhelanAccident & Emergency, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basildon, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1848-3982
Rengarajan SubramanianAccident & Emergency, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basildon, UK rengarajan.subramanian@btuh.nhs.uk.
Adeep Krishnan Kutty MenonAccident & Emergency, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basildon, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 71-year-old woman was brought in by ambulance to the emergency department with sudden-onset difficulty in breathing whilst shopping at a large UK retail shopping centre. She had no respiratory history and portable chest X-ray revealed a huge gastrothorax, secondary pneumothorax and mediastinal shift. Clinical deterioration with haemodynamic instability required urgent decompression. Successful needle decompression followed by tube thoracostomy improved patient condition with no further complications. Surgical repair was performed but was delayed by COVID-19. This case provides a rare presentation of an acute life-threatening tension gastrothorax with difficult management considerations. A review of the management options is undertaken.

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Acute DiseaseAgedChest TubesCOVID-19Decompression, SurgicalDiagnosis, DifferentialEmergency Service, HospitalFemaleHerniaHumansMediastinumPneumothoraxRadiography, ThoracicRespiratory Distress SyndromeThoracostomycardiothoracic surgerygastrointestinal surgerypneumothoraxradiologyresuscitation

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PMID33832935
PMCPMC8039211

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