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Please share a tip in the form of a haiku on dealing with a collapsed lung.
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Ignore: Okay to wait / If you can't breathe well / Get chest tube.
Answered 6/11/2017
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Ignore: Use your incentive spirometer often.
Answered 7/15/2014
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Ignore: I can't catch my breath , my chest hurts, I feel winded, I need a x ray.
Answered 7/15/2014
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