Barotrauma and Pneumothorax

Overview

Journal J Thorac Dis

Publisher AME Publishing Company

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2015 Mar 17

PMID 25774306

Citations 35

Authors

George Ioannidis

George Lazaridis

Sofia Baka

Ioannis Mpoukovinas

Vasilis Karavasilis

Sofia Lampaki

Ioannis Kioumis

Georgia Pitsiou

Antonis Papaiwannou

Anastasia Karavergou

Nikolaos Katsikogiannis

Eirini Sarika

Kosmas Tsakiridis

Ipokratis Korantzis

Konstantinos Zarogoulidis

Paul Zarogoulidis

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Abstract

Barotrauma is physical damage to body tissues caused by a difference in pressure between a gas space inside, or in contact with the body, and the surrounding fluid. This situation typically occurs when the organism is exposed to a significant change in ambient pressure, such as when a scuba diver, a free-diver or an airplane passenger ascends or descends, or during uncontrolled decompression of a pressure vessel, but it can also happen by a shock wave. Whales and dolphins are also vulnerable to barotrauma if exposed to rapid and excessive changes in diving pressures. In the current review we will focus on barotraumas from definition to treatment.

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