Today in the hospital, there was a patient that told my that :

Hi! My name is Andrea and I am 25 years old. I´m a soldier and when I was carrying out surveillance work in yhe miuntains, I fell on an embankment, beating my chest with a tree. I have respirartory difficulties, with rapid and superficial breathing, and acute pain that increasese with inspiration. The pain radiates to the shoulder and back and I have a dry, persistent cough with sweating, pallor, hypothension and tachycardia.

PNEUMOTHORAX

Andrea presents respiratory difficultes with rapid and superficial breathing and acute chest pain that increases with inspiration.She also presents sweating,pallor,hypotension andtachycardia.The lungs have membranous coating called pleurae.

These pleurae are of two types:

The plarietal pleura and visceral pleura.When air is introduced between both membranes,both pleurae move away ,causing pneumothorax.The lungs are located in the rib cage that form part of the respiratory system.

Next to the lungs you can find the trachea bronchi bronchioles and alveoli.Among the causes of pneumothorax we could find two types:

Intrathoracic.the function of pleura ,wich always producing a certain amount of fluid,is to allow the lung to be properly displaced into de pleural cavity with respiratory movements.The pleural cavity is composed of layers of the membranes lining the lungs and thoracic cavity.

PREVENT:there s no known way to prevent the anset of pneumotorax ;however ,smoking can be avoided in case of patients with this addition.

TREATMENT:the pupose of the tratment is for the lung to expand ,and to reattach the two membranous coating or pleurae.If the pneumothorax is more intense ,it can be treated by evacuating air from the slit by aspiration with a needle.In severe situations,it is recommended to undergo surgery.