What surgery is perform for spontaneous lung collapses?
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The above two are correct for the initial management of someone with a pneumothorax. If someone has a stiffness pneumothorax with air trapping that is cause the heart to not be able to fill with blood, consequently sometimes a needle decompression is done first by a paramedic or emergency physician in order to buy time until a chest tube can be placed.
If someone have a problem with recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax, (which is what I think you suggest by spontaneous lung collapse) then they can have a type of surgery called a pleurodesis. This is where on earth they inject a chemical such as talc in between the lung and chest wall, or they mechanically irritate it with a rough wad, or they surgically remove part of the pleura. All of these techniques are intended to create scar tissue that cause the lung to adhere to the chest wall, so that if another pneumothorax developed, the lung would not collapse. Source(s): MD
Classically, it's tube thoracostomy. But these days, instead of a big honker of a chest tube, a small pigtail catheter is normally substituted, so it's really not much more than a stick beside a needle, though the pleura are sensitive enough that it doesn't feel resembling it!
Depends, on size, location, etc.; but usually they will insert chest tubes to drain off the air outside the lungs, so lung tissue can re-expand. Source(s): RN
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