Breathwork: Update on diagnosis and management of Pneumothorax 2025 (Part 2)
Description
This week we speak again to Dr Deirdre Fitzgerald on pneumothorax. We cover it all; the typical presentation, the diagnosis, categories of pneumothorax and management updates in the last 12 months. We discuss trends in the field of pleural disease and what to expect with respect to
changes in guidelines in the coming years.
Chapters
00.45 Introduction
01.00 Rapid fire round
01.50 Diagnosis of pneumothorax
02.30 Tests to do at presentation/ prior to referral
05.25 Initial management; does the size of the pneumothorax matter?
08.00 Conservative management of pneumothorax; the evidence
09.00 Medical management of pneumothorax
12.18 Chest drain specifics
15.28 Suction; the evidence
17.03 Removing the chest drain
17.38 Surgical management
19.08 Post pneumothorax guidance
21.23 Pitfalls in management of pneumothorax
22.28 Recent breakthroughs in pneumothorax management
Show notes
ERS 2024 guidelines on spontaneous pneumothorax https://publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/63/5/2300797
High flow oxygen papers https://www.bmj.com/content/4/5779/86,
BTS pleural guidelines 2023 https://thorax.bmj.com/content/78/11/1143
United States
