British Thoracic Society Pleural Disease Guideline
Spontaneous pneumothorax classification and management
Conservative vs interventional approach criteria
AHA ACC Chest Pain Guideline 2021
Gulati M et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2021
Differential diagnosis framework for chest pain presentations
Key trials and systematic reviews
Systematic reviews
Roberts DJ et al. Annals of Surgery 2015
Clinical Presentation of Patients With Tension Pneumothorax systematic review
Spontaneously breathing vs ventilated patient data
Cardiac arrest 17.7 times more likely in ventilated patients
Chan KK et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020
Chest Ultrasonography vs Supine CXR for Pneumothorax in Trauma
Ultrasound superiority in trauma pneumothorax detection
Anderson D et al. JAMA Surgery 2022
Comprehensive Review of Chest Tube Management
Recent evidence
Ausman JA et al. Prehospital Emergency Care 2026
Needle decompression vs finger thoracostomy in cadaveric models
Finger thoracostomy 92.1% vs needle 76.3% success rate
Dubroc Z et al. American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025
Colorimetric capnography adjunct during needle decompression
Decompression success 82% vs 66% without capnography adjunct
Latifi A et al. Chest 2026
Pleural manometry in pneumothorax evaluating tension physiology
OR 1.40 per unit increase in inspiratory pleural pressure
Coding standards
ICD-10 coding
J93.0 spontaneous tension pneumothorax
J93.1 other spontaneous pneumothorax
S27.0 traumatic pneumothorax
J93.9 pneumothorax unspecified
SNOMED CT concepts
Tension pneumothorax disorder
Needle thoracocentesis procedure
Tube thoracostomy procedure
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