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Tension pneumothorax to cut or to poke?

By |October 27th, 2025|Categories: EMS education, In the field, Uncategorized|

This is not an ago old question in medicine as the standard of care in any emergency department or trauma bay is to cut the chest and place a chest tube. However given the means by which EMS operates only recently have we been posed with a question, should we be doing finger thoracostomies (FT) or continue to use the needle decompression (NT) as a treatment for tension pneumothorax?

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