{"id":63,"date":"2009-10-11T20:58:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-10-11T20:58:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:58:37","slug":"q-pneumothorices-and-white-rabbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/10\/11\/q-pneumothorices-and-white-rabbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Pneumothorices and white rabbits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3336\/3303413884_0dc275bfb7_t.jpg\" alt=\"Rabbit\" width=\"66\" height=\"100\" \/>Not just Alice in Wonderland, it seems, but a bunch of our colleagues are chasing fluffy-tailed bunnies in their treatment of pneumothorax. Oxygen &#8211; in high concentrations &#8211; is used by some people to treat spontaneous, non-tension, pneumothorax. But why?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->David Roberts, Paediatrician in Birmingham, UK, was set on the scent of this after an attendee at their emergency room was given oxygen overnight for a small pneumothorax and despite no obvious respiratory distress. Is there evidence for it, or is it (as with many things) just something we do because we think it should work?<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgement: Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ulikleafar\/\">leafar.<\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not just Alice in Wonderland, it seems, but a bunch of our colleagues are chasing fluffy-tailed bunnies in their treatment of pneumothorax. Oxygen &#8211; in high concentrations &#8211; is used by some people to treat spontaneous, non-tension, pneumothorax. But why? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/10\/11\/q-pneumothorices-and-white-rabbits\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}