For trauma patients who require emergent chest decompression, prehospital needle decompression (PHND) was associated with a lower risk of mortality compared with tube thoracostomy, a cohort study ...

Tension pneumothorax remains a critical, life-threatening complication in trauma care, arising when air accumulates under pressure in the pleural cavity. Effective management requires rapid diagnosis ...

Needle thoracostomy (NT), a procedure used in chest decompression, is a process in which an angiocatheter is inserted through the chest wall into the pleural cavity to release an abnormal and ...