Collapsed lungs are from differentiating pressures on the inside and outside of the chest cavity. Development of subcutaneous emphysema, one aid in the chest cavity, occurs when pressure from the outside is greater than the inside and air is forced into the casualty’s chest.

But do you know WHEN to use it

@War Waifu

rn

use it rn

no balls

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you use it when u shouldnt of your can really rek someones day

When the lung is collapsed

After i used chest seals and his lung is still not working and i have no way of getting him aid and he is going to fucking suffocate

@Festive

No thats when you take him on a date

lmao

That’d be a shit way to go

his lung will work right afterwards

If you ask the casualty “how are you breathing?” After applying a chest seal and in response his chest gurgles and he coughs up blood.

@Kali no youre wrong

You take him out to dinner at your favorite 5 star place

But you force him into mind games by calling back 2 months later

@Festive i would rather cause more problems that wont matter for hours and keep him from dying in the next 30 seconds. I'm not putting shit into someones body unless it is literally the last option i have to keep them alive

How long is recovery time when this is used?

Uh

if it works right, forever

Also depending on how bad the tension pneumothorax is and how much of the lungs are affected you might be better off waiting for legit medics to show up

He'll never recover from the nicest date with a dude he's ever had

Yeah how do they unfuck someone with a decomp needle

In them

Pull it out lol

@Kali they just pull it out lmao

Fill the hole with dick

But wouldn’t the lung collapse?

make another hole

Again?

with a bullet

@Crack cookah theyre gonna be in a hospital

Get air out of lungs, perform surgery closing all holes, idk I’m not a surgeon

theyll have more than enough shit to make lung work

Do you wince when you see someone telling another person with no exp to kneel on an injury before applying a dressing/tq

@Kali when you go to the ER and have the same problem they put a tube into the exact same place you put the decomp needle. They would literally just leave it in until they knew what was going on inside you and probably just switch it out later or do a lower intercostal and take it out.

That makes the most sense

I assumed you had to keep the pressure ratio the same until you entirely fixed the patient but didn’t know how