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I am a writer, need medical insight. scene: youth suffers punctured lung, barbed hook on ship at sea. no modern medicine; none trained. best response?
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What available: Alternatives are to enlarge hole in chest wall to create an open pneumothorax and prevent tension from trapped air, or to create valve type mechanism with some type of tube and flutter valve or water submersion of tube to allow air out of chest cavity but not allow it back in through tube.
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