Question 30 (part 2) · LEK · Chest injuries
Paradoxical chest wall respiratory motion occurs in the following situation:
- A. evisceration.
- B. cardiac tamponade.
- C. external pneumothorax.
- D. flaccid chest.
- E. circumferential chest burns.
Hint
Paradoxical motion requires a chest wall segment that has lost continuity with the rest of the rib cage.
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