Evaluation for Compromise of the Tank

Emergency Medicine. 2010 April;42(4):12-14

April 1, 2010|Emergency Medicine

Phillips Perera, MD, RDMS, FACEP;Thomas Mailhot, MD, RDMS;Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCPC

The RUSH evaluation for “compromise of the tank” is used to identify a pneumothorax in a COPD patient who presents to the ED with shortness of breath and right-sided chest pain.

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