Amy Yoke Foong Wong and Choong Hoon Foo and Chung Chek Wong and Khin Maung Ohn (2021) Experiences of early air travel with pneumothorax after anterior spinal surgery. BMJ British medical journal, 14. pp. 1-4.
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Abstract
Anterior thoracic or thoracolumbar spinal surgery by retropleural approach always carries a risk of pneumothorax as its consequence. Conventionally, the Aerospace Medicine Association and the British Thoracic Society recommend 2 weeks delay of air travel for a patient with resolved postoperative pneumothorax. They also label active pneumothorax as an absolute contraindication for commercial air travel. Such a delay always causes psychological and financial stress to patients and family who are far from home. Here, we report three patients with postoperative pneumothorax, who insisted on early air travel despite being informed of the possible consequences.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword: | Cardiothoracic surgery , Pneumothorax |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA1-1270 Public aspects of medicine > RA421-790.95 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine > RA773-788 Personal health and hygiene Including clothing, bathing, exercise, travel, nutrition, sleep, sex hygiene R Medicine > RD Surgery > RD1-811 Surgery > RD520-599.5 Surgery by region, system, or organ |
| Department: | FACULTY > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| Depositing User: | DG MASNIAH AHMAD - |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2021 14:18 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2021 14:18 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30911 |
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