Hemopneumothorax

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Sep 7, 2012

The HIGH PRIORITY nursing assessments in a patient who may be having a right hemopneumothorax. If I am correct you would auscultate the fields observing/listening/monitoring for diminished breath sounds and check the motion of the chest wall during inhalation for asymmetrical movement.
Also then chest tubes would need to be placed...is there are good website for nursing interventions for a patient with a chest tube?? I know you need to asses VS, pain, the CUD...
Most of the websites I am finding are for patients having chest tubes put in not for nurses....I keep hitting walls....

CDU??? I have been a nurse for a long time and that was a new one. This is what the Joint Commission means by using unapproved abbreviation....it leaves too much room for error. It is good practice to get used to it as a student.

Usually, when you have had enough trauma to cause a Hemo (blood) pneumo(air) thorax (collapse) means that the patient has suffered an excessive amount of blunt force trauma to the chest and possibly the Great vessels.....the aorta, heart and cerebral and subclavian arteries. Another condition that accompanies these types of injures is flail chest and when there is a hemopneumothorax another condition called "Tension pneumothorax" is life threatening. Knowing that a patient has suffered that mount of blunt force trauma to the chest will lead you on the path of critical thinking of what other subsequent injuries a patient has suffered as a result of this trauma.

Here are results that my search on google revealed

Nursing care plan for patients with chest tubes

Chest Trauma: Nursing Care and Management

NUrsing care for chest tubes

nursing diagnosis for patient with chest tubes

nursing assessment for patient with chest tubes

care of the patient with tension pneumothorax

care of the patient with tension pneumo

care of the patient with flail chest.

chest tube management

I hope this helps.

psu_213, BSN, RN · Sep 7, 2012

CDU??? I have been a nurse for a long time and that was a new one. This is what the Joint Commission means by using unapproved abbreviation....it leaves too much room for error. It is good practice to get used to it as a student.

I was thinking the same thing. I could probably think of a dozen things for which CDU might represent, but I don't think I would have though of 'chest drainage unit.' Be very careful here....