Update Course Rewind: Spontaneous Pneumothorax 2021

We’ve seen a lot of recent updates about the management of primary spontaneous pneumothoraces. At the recent 2021 Pediatric Surgery Update Course, Dr. Ronnie Sullins reviewed the latest literature. And now we’re giving you the highlights in this video.

Hosted by: Rod Gerardo, Ellen Encisco, Todd Ponsky

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“Changing the Paradigm for Management of Pediatric Primary
Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Simple Aspiration Test Predicts
Need for Operation” https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(19)30695-5/pdf

“Conservative versus Interventional Treatment for Spontaneous Pneumothorax” https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910775

00:00 Introduction
01:00 Case presentation
01:16 Old considerations for treating spontaneous pneumothorax
02:09 Defining needle aspiration for spontaneous pneumothorax
03:00 Defining conservative management for spontaneous pneumothorax
03:32 MidWest Pediatric Surgery Consortium trial on conservative management summary
05:45 Australia/New Zealand study on moderate to large pneumothoraces
06:48 How Dr. Todd Ponsky treats spontaneous pneumothoraces
07:51 Outro