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Case #3 -
A 45 year old with chest pain after an MVA

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
5.) How do you definitively manage the pneumothorax?

The definitive management is a tube thoracostomy placed in the 4th or 5th intercostal space in the anterior axillary line.  
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