A 25-year-old in a high-speed road traffic collision presents with hypotension, tachycardia, absent breath sounds on the left, and tracheal deviation ...

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A 25-year-old in a high-speed road traffic collision presents with hypotension, tachycardia, absent breath sounds on the left, and tracheal deviation to the right. Which is the most likely diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

Tension pneumothorax

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Massive hemothorax

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Simple pneumothorax

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Flail chest

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Pulmonary contusion

ukmla MCQ (SBA): Emergency Medicine

A 25-year-old in a high-speed road traffic collision presents with hypotension, tachycardia, absent breath sounds on the left, and tracheal deviation to the right. Which is the most likely diagnosis?