An expert has revealed three “common” causes of chest pain to look out for. According to a doctor, although these symptoms may not be linked to heart attack or other heart issues they could ...

Your windpipe (trachea) branches into tubes called bronchi ... lining that surrounds your lung and lines the inside of your chest wall. A tiny layer of fluid lets the pleura on your lung's ...

Thoracostomies, and subsequent placements of chest tubes (CTs), are a standard procedure in several domains of medicine. In emergency medicine, thoracostomies are indicated to release a relevant ...

In most trauma systems chest tubes are placed in the hospital and not by EMS. For a tension pneumothorax, where there are signs of respiratory failure and hypoperfusion, a needle chest ...