A member asked:

Please advise what is that one needle-like-tool that doctors poke into patients chest/lungs to keep them breathing?

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Dr. Corey Clay answered

Specializes in Allergy and Immunology

Pneumothorax: Needle decompression is useful in situations such as trauma that lead to air filling the cavity around the lung. If the pressure of surrounding air exceeds the pressure in the lung, then lung collapse occurs. The outside pressure is released by the needle insertion allowing the lungs to expand.

Answered 3/22/2015

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