Hemodynamic Complications

Question 1

What is a Pneumothorax?

How does it occur?

Answer 1

a collapsed lung

• occurs when air leaks into the space between your lung and chest wall.

–> This air pushes on the outside of your lung and makes it collapse

Question 2

What is a hemothorax?

Answer 2

when blood collects between your chest wall and your lungs
(pleural cavity)

–> The build-up can cause your lung to collapse

• as the blood pushes on the outside of the lung