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Trauma - Paradoxical Breathing in Flail Chest 
It occurs when multiple adjacent ribs are broken in
Trauma - Paradoxical ... multiple adjacent ribs ... #Breathing #Pattern ... #Clinical #PhysicalExam ... #Pulmonary #Respiratory
Flail Chest- Check out the paradoxical chest wall movement 
Typical management: opiates for analgesia, intubation due
Alternative: Serratus ... #Breathing #Pattern ... #Trauma #Video ... #Clinical #PhysicalExam ... #Pulmonary #Respiratory
Chest Trauma Complications - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac:
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Pericarditis
 • Myocardial Contusion
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Chest Trauma Complications ... - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Wall: • Rib Fractures ... Injury Lung: • Pulmonary
Chest Pain Diagnosis and Management Algorithm
STEMI:
 - Hx: Pressure like CP, Radiation to arm/jaw, CAD risk
Chest Pain Diagnosis ... and Management Algorithm ... Limb ischemia Pulmonary ... PEX: Decreased/absent ... #differential
Lung sliding & pneumonia on POCUS
The differential diagnosis for absence of lung sliding includes pneumonia; however,
on POCUS The differential ... interface—this pattern ... from the anterior chest ... pneumonia #POCUS #clinical ... #ultrasound #pulmonary
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
suffered no head trauma ... This patient’s clinical ... exam findings and clinical ... trauma are diagnosed ... radiograph pattern