so it shouldn't come as any surprise that you can't just leave a bunch of free air in someone's chest and try to pretend that it's not there. because free air smushes your heart and when your heart can't pump right your blood pressure is low and then you can't perfuse your organs and the boluses that you get just makes things worse because your heart STILL can't pump right and when you finally get an EKG done, it reads ***ACUTE MI***.
cue the shock!!
fortunately, this man was not having a 'true' heart attack, and this was nothing that a chest tube and a trip to the ICU couldn't fix.
now, didn't someone suggest a chest tube and a trip to the ICU circa two days ago?
well fancy that.
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