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A 25-year-old tall, otherwise healthy man presents with sudden-onset pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea. He is not a smoker. Examination reveals decreased breath sounds on the right with hyperresonance. Chest X-ray shows a small right primary spontaneous pneumothorax with 1.5 cm rim of air and no mediastinal shift. He is stable. What is the most appropriate initial management?

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