Question 9 · LDEK · Trauma
Paradoxical respiration is characteristic of:
- A. cardiac tamponade.
- B. myocardial infarction.
- C. flail chest.
- D. secondary spontaneous pneumothorax.
- E. rupture of the diaphragm.
Hint
Think of a chest wall segment that has lost its bony continuity with the rest of the rib cage.
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