Haemothorax

  • Blood in the thoracic cavity pleural space
  • Usually in association with a chest wall injury
  • Reduced air entry and stoney dull percussion note on the affected side
  • Not as compromised, either respiratory or haemodynamically, as a massive haemothorax
  • ABCDE
  • Oxygen
  • Transfer to the Emergency Department as soon as possible

Pictorial representation of a haemothorax