The radiograph is showing complete collapse of the left lung (2/2 mucous plugging) with resultant severe ipsilateral mediastinal shift. An acute shift can have the same effect as any other โtensionโ-type process, causing impaired venous return to the heart and decreased cardiac output via the Starling mechanism.
submitted by โazibird(279)
What the hell is going on here? Still no answer that makes sense. We have:
Put it all together: RIGHT tension pneumothorax
But why the hell are breath sounds decreased on the LEFT? That alone made me switch to some crazy heart crushing atelectasis answer. I honestly thing the R/L mixup may be a typo because without that the question is simple.