DIP Episode 578 - Quick and Dirty Emergency Medicine For The USMLEs (Part 4)

Welcome, my name is divine. This is episode 578 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts. Into this podcast, we're gonna be continuing the series on quick and dirty Emergency Medicine for the US ML East, quick and dirty Emergency Medicine for the US ML East. This is gonna be part four So let's jump right into it. So what if they give you a question about a 27-year-old male? I hear told that this person You know 30 minutes ago was in a motor vehicle accident And that this person has been completely enough like chest pain and the person is a profoundly shot of breath And then they tell you that you see Interstitial opacities on a chest x-ray And you also notice that the patient's PA02 is low What should you be thinking about in this circumstance?

Well, I hope you're saying we'll divine this sounds a lot like a pulmonary contusion pulmonary contusion Now I'm gonna talk about this, but one thing I want to say is that our friends at the MV is they're very smart And as you've seen me as you've seen me see many podcasts one thing they love to do is to Take what you know and put it in different words put it in different words So sometimes on your exams instead of calling this Pulmonary contusion they can call this like Blond Puminary injury Blond Puminary injury Right, so this is basically like Blond forced trauma to the chest Right and they may even say oh what is the you know, you know, what's the most appropriate next step in management Honestly, this person just needs supplemental oxygen right and they also need to be monitored right This is again like Blond forced trauma to the to the Your pulmonary parankhamer basically Right, you know, so these people just need supportive care you can give them if they're hypoxic give them supplemental oxygen Right, and you just want to monitor their Oxygen labs basically right oxygen labs, you know, you may want to hook them up to a cardiac monitor uh and then be me Tell you that you know the following interventions were employed and the you know the patient still has persistent hypoxia And all those things and then you are asked what's the most appropriate next step in management I'm I'll encourage you to consider doing by pap right so if a person has a pulmonary contusion And they're not getting better or they have very very severe symptoms That's actually an indication for by-pap on your exams remember by-pap is an example of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation Right, it's literally non-invasive is literally not invasive right because you're not running an Indutricial tube down the throat remember another name for indutricial intubation is Invasive Positive pressur

e ventilation right and again don't forget pulmonary contusion the classic presentation Is going to be in a person that was in trauma hours ago and then now they're having hypoxia and they have again interstitial infiltrates in the lungs right again I just like to think of it as you have blunt force trauma to the chest Right you almost like smashed the lungs So that's gonna make your pulmonary vessels leak here and if you're leaky They're going to basically Put a ton of fluid into your pulmonary pyrochemical uh you may you have your line.

Maybe filled with some fluid So that's gonna want prevent expansion of your lungs. So your compliance is gonna go down right and that's actually gonna raise your A ingredient because again You're gonna have trouble with gas exchange because your pulmonary pyrochemical is very wet Right again you may think that they will not test things like um Compliance or things like A-A gradient in a person that has a trauma situation Well, you could not be more sadly me speaking for your exams. So I'd certainly know that if I were you Now what if they give you a question about a patient and you're told that um This patient, you know, was in a and again, please don't forget pulmonary contusion many times the Problem is gonna be from trauma that you had just a few hours ago I don't know some resources kind of say hey This may have happened from trauma from days days days ago I would not do that on my exam. I would go with trauma that was hours ago You know for pulmonary contusion Now what if they give you a question about a patient?

They tell you that this patient was in a motor vehicle accident And this be you know like three hours ago And that this patient is short of is short of breath And then you're told that a chest radiograph was obtained and There is a lot of opacification within the thoracic cavity And you're told that a nizogastric tube was inserted and The tip of the nizogastric tube was seen in the left thoracic cavity Right in the left thoracic cavity What should you think about or they may even say oh that abdominal viscera I found in the thoracic cavity on the left side. There's a lot of opacification many times. It's gonna be on the left side What should you think about with this kind of question Well, I'd really hope you're thinking about the ruptured diaphragm I'll really hope you're thinking about a ruptured diaphragm Right again, this is another classic trauma situation you may see Pop up on you exams, right again many times this is gonna be in the setting of blunt force trauma to the chest blunt force trauma to your chest right blunt force trauma to your chest or your or your abdomen right and Let me explain some of these chest x-refined ends that I've just mentioned because I also put me be like what Tip of the nizogastric tube is in the thoracic cavity on the left Well, the thing is whenever you ruptured the diaphragm first things first. It usually happens on the left Why does he usually happen on the left?

It usually happens on the left because the diaphragm I mean the liver exert some kind of buffering effect remember the liver is kind of like a big large stout organ so it exerts some kind of buffering effect on the right side So It's almost like the weakest link along your diaphragm is on the left side So typically when people have a ruptured diaphragm you're gonna see them having left-sided Symptoms you're gonna have left-sided symptoms, right? So it's more likely to rupture on the left like the left posterior region, right? Now let's explain the chest x-refined ends right? So you're like wow divine what's all this opacification on the left side of the chest? Well, it's pretty much because your diaphragm has ruptured Now you don't have that separating wall between your thoracic cavity and your abdominal cavity So your abdominal Contents are going to basically herniate into the thoracic cavity Right many times is gonna be the stomach But it could also be your colon that herniates through remember the colon is is kind of big right? So your colon can also herniate through right?

So if the stomach herniates remember when you place an isogastric tube and isogastric tube traverses your esophagus and then it goes into your stomach and then ultimately should land it somewhere in your small intestine at least in the early in the proximal parts of your small intestine so because these people's like stomach is in the thoracic cavity you're gonna notice the angitube you think that oh this ingitube should have gone to the abdominal cavity you should see below the diaphragm But you end up not seeing either you end up seeing it You know like in the thoracic cavity because the abdominal organ is supposed to go to is littering the thoracic cavity Because the diaphragm has ruptured because the diaphragm has ruptured Right and typically for these people You know again On a chest x-refined you may just notice discontinuity You just notice that you know that diaphragm line usually see you just don't see it anymore Right when you see something like that you really want to think about a ruptured diaphragm And again you've literally ruptured something so what do you think is going to be your next best step in management on your exams? I'd really hope that you're going to pick the answer that says exploratory laparotomy right? Go ahead and perform exploratory laparotomy believe it or not They may put an answer choice that says to do thoracotomy on your exams right?

Remember a thoracotomy many people don't think of it this way But it's literally an example of an exploratory laparotomy right? Whenever you see the word otomy it means that you're making like an incision like a full-blown incision Right? Something you want to keep at the back of your mind for exams And since we're talking about a ruptured diaphragm I think it's just helpful to make a useful integration Right? They can give you a question about a newborn so this may not be a trauma situation But this may be like a newborn question right? So they give you a question about a newborn And this newborn you're told that this newborn has like shortness or breath And this newborn has a scaphoid abdomen right? So an inwardly curved abdomen Well, if you see something like that, I want you to think of a congenital diaphragmatic hernia A congenital diaphragmatic hernia So what's the pathophysiology behind a congenital diaphragmatic hernia? It's actually pretty straightforward. It's actually Related is actually related to failed development They can literally make an embryology question of this It's failed development of the plural peritoneal membrane The plural peritoneal membrane literally look at the words plural peritoneal membrane so a membrane that separates the plural That's like your plural cavity up top from your peritoneal right from your peritoneal cavity download Right?

Which is basically the job of the diaphragm which is basically the job of the diaphragm Again, remember this usually happens on the left side because again the liver is in the way on the right side So you may wonder why would these people have a scaphoid abdomen? Well, the thing is you abdominal contents They've decided to make their way to the person's a thoracic cavity So since they've made their way to the thoracic cavity There is less stuff within your abdominal cavity So your abdominal cavity doesn't have to push outward It can kind of curve inwards.

That's why you have that scaphoid abdomen So just like I said you can have a scaphoid abdomen for a congenital diaphragmatic hernia You better believe that you can have a scaphoid abdomen in a person that has diaphragmatic rupture on your exam So I'm gonna see that again Just like you can have a scaphoid abdomen in a congenital diaphragmatic hernia Which is an embryological problem You can also have a scaphoid abdomen in a person that has diaphragmatic rupture Again, I'm trying to mix some parallels so this thing can kind of sticking your mind that you can see the integration Now another thing I want to mention here in this question Is for congenital diaphragmatic hernia Again, usually it happens on the left like I said Because the liver is in the way on the right Now what is going to be one of the most worrisome sick well-eye Like most of the thing we really worry about From these people that these kids that have congenital diaphragmatic hernia Well the big worry, the big concern for many of us Is that they will have pulmonary hypoplegia Right, you'll have pulmonary hypoplegia The thing is your lungs depend on space to develop properly That's the truth The lungs depend on space to develop properly So if you have somebody that is much enough some of that space like abdominal contents Then that's kind of a problem right that's kind of a problem because the lungs will not be able to expand And develop in the way they should develop And if they do not expand and develop in the way they should develop You're gonna have pulmonary hypoplegia Right, the reason you see me going over this is that Our friends at the NBM Es They know that many people have memorized or they have in their beloved Ankydex That ooh Powder sequence, powder sequence is the big cause of pulmonary hypoplegia Well let me tell you another cause of pulmonary hypoplegia on your exams If you have a congenital

diaphragmatic hernia Right, remember if you have a Powder sequence usually arises from oligohydramneus Right, so you can't if you have oligohydramneus Your lungs will not have enough fluid within them When you're still in utero Right, and if there's not enough fluid within your lungs They will not be able to expand Remember your lungs you have your like a bag of fluid When you're in utero If you have oligohydramneus you won't have enough fluid in that bag So your lungs again will not expand And if they do not expand they will not develop properly Again all these integrations you see me talking about They're pretty high you to know for your exams All right, now what if they give you a question about a patient 27-year-old male and you're told that this person You know, you know was was uh kind of Was kind of stopped right the person had some kind of penetrating trauma to the thoracic cavity And they tell you that a chest x-ray is obtained And that chest x-ray shows like a Mediastinal air right that chest x-ray shows media's Stinal air What should be your next best step in Management on your exams I'll really hope you're saying that well I'm going to get a gastro graphene study Gastro graphene study gastro graphene study Chi what do I mean?

Well the the thing I mean here is that this person likely has injury to the esophagus Right this person likely has a syphagel injury right again So phagel injury can arise in a trauma situation Right you can arise in a trauma situation Right many times on a chest x-ray you're going to see like Mediastinal air right or you may see subcutaneous and pizema Right so you see like collections of air below the person's skin Uh, let me tell you that the person has probably ruptured their esophagus Remember there are many other things that can cause a severe rupture on your exams like what They can give you a question about a person that has a calisia And then the person had a pneumatic dilation Uh, that might think dilation I don't know why anybody would want to do that But I guess in some people's situations they actually do that Well, you don't pneumatic dilation and then you pretty much pop the esophagus Well, you may get in trouble that way Or they can give it they can give a subagel rupture to a person that has an eating disorder Like a person that has anorexia nervosa Or a person that has bulimia nervosa And that person that has that eating disorder They may use wretching to try to Lose weight they may try to induce vomiting to lose weight Well, if you're rich too hard you can have a very pronounced profound increase In your interest of a geopressors and when that happens the esophagus can pop They can also give you an esophageal rupture question in a woman that is pregnant Especially a woman within the first trimester What will make a woman rich hard within the first trimester Well, I would hope you're telling me that oh divine This is probably going to be hyper MSS gravity Darum hyper MSS gravity Darum right those people you know is because of that rise in beta ECG So they keep wretching wretching wretching wretching Again, you may think that this is something you wil

l never see on an EM shelf Men you would not be more sadly mistaken right it's literally a trauma situation They'll give you a question about a woman that comes in at like 12 weeks gestation They tell you that you know she has lost a lot of weight over the last two weeks She has been having like profused vomiting right and then she has like you know unstable vital signs Significant chest pain subcutaneous infosima right and they may tell you that she has a lot of ketones in her urine When you see something like that I really wanted to think of hyper MSS gravity Darum The person has literally ruptured their esophagus right because again they've been wretching hard They've been having a lot of morning sickness a lot of vomited right a lot of vomited right so and and another Situation on your exam that can create esophageal rupture is a person that gets some kind of eGD right get some kind of an endoscopy right again the process of endoscopy you may purf you may prefer the person's a esophagus So why did I say you should go for gastro-grafing well gastro-grafing is a good way is something that can show you while if there's Extravacation beyond the boundaries of the esophagus right and remember Our friends at the NBM Es sometimes instead of using the term gastro-grafing They may call it water soluble contrast animal water soluble contrast animal water soluble contrast animal Right that's another name for gastro-grafing please.

I will encourage you on your exams If you suspect that a person has a esophageal rupture or a esophageal Preparation please do not pick an answer choice that says barium don't do a barium swallow if you do a barium swallow that barium can leak Uh If they if they do have a esophageal rupture that barium can literally leak into the media's thinum and you can have a very Very powerful inflammatory response that can cause very severe symptoms that can cause death They can have a very powerful media's the night is from the barium That's why we'd rather use something that is water soluble water soluble contrast like gastro-grafing right and this person is Was gonna be your next best step in management after we've made the diagnosis Well go ahead and do uh perform a some kind of surgical intervention. Okay.

Quite and perform some kind of surgical intervention And then what if they give you a question about a patient uh that was in trauma right that was in trauma like um, you know Like 30 minutes ago and this person is uh, you know This person is completely unresponsive at the scene and detail you that you know He has Puppable pulses in the right upper extremity But he's left upper extremity pulses are Not palpable right detail you that he has non-puppable um Left upper extremity pulses and then they tell you that you know An emergent chest texture was obtained on a revel at the emergency room, you know, and you notice that this um uh You notice that Uh The media's thinam is why the person has a widened media's thinam of course our friends at the mbm is in the agreed wisdom One answer to you will put and that'll be wrong will be erotic dissection right don't don't pick that answer The answer you should pick on you exams is that this person has a erotic rupture right this person has a erotic rupture Or they have like a basically a tear in the other right? So how does this usually you may be like What define how did you get there?

Well, let me explain The thing is a erotic rupture erotic tears their things you're actually gonna see When a person is in like a high-speed collision right especially when you stop from a high speed very quickly You know, so say for example, they can give this to you most commonly on your exams in the setting of a morovico Accident right you know driving at high speed you're like ah You break quick you getting trouble right or they can also give it as a thing you find in a person that falls from a height Especially if you fall from a great height right? I mean you literally think about it gravity is kind of doing all the work right so You're gonna be accelerating and then you have this sort of stop as you hit the floor That's gonna cause you to have quite a number of problems. It's actually gonna cause you to have quite a number of problems Right or they can give you to they can make this a question about a survivor of a plane crash.

I mean How much more deceleration can you have with a plane crash right a plane is going on like crazy high speed And then like a person has a plane crash like a crash landing over an actual crash Right all the thing that can happen in that circumstance is that again you you can kind of rip through the order And the thing is there many things they love to test on the exams with a erotic rupture right The main things they love to test on exams with a erotic rupture So first things first Typically if you have a erotic rupture what are some things you miss you on a chest x-ray?

Well, it's very high you to know that you may see a widened media Steinem right so remember ah Why didn't media Steinem can be caused by erotic rupture the other things remember for your exams That can cause widened media Steinem like pulmonary anthrax because remember anthrax can cause a hemorrhagic media stonitis and also you can have a widened media Steinem if you have a erotic dissection Right, but again you can also have a widened media Steinem from a erotic rupture right a erotic rupture erotic tear Right, so you may have a wide media Steinem You may notice that there is like a fluid collection on the left side of the chest Why why is it on the left side because if you think about it most of the time Almost of the time in most people the other most of the order is on the left side of the body So they may basically have like a left-sided hemothorax right left side hemothorax And also you may notice with these kinds of questions that a lot of the person's ah thoracic cavity structures are going to deviate towards the right So like for example, you're trickier may deviate towards the right right you as suffer goes believe it or not may also deviate towards the right why because again there is this rapid bleed and all these problems On the left side of the chest right with the other so all your other thoracic structures may just decide that you know what We're gonna go ahead and deviate towards the right side So just gonna keep that at the back of your mind on on exams right and again you may wonder divine Why is it that the person has these differences in blood pressures between the right-operate extremity and the left-operate extremity Well, the reason they have those differences is again many times these tears happen on the left side Remember the order when he's taking off from the left ventricle it takes off Going right and then it makes a curve left and then go

es down along the left side of your body Right, so the thing is usually the tear is going to happen right around The ligamentum arteriose and that is again much more on the left side of the body, right?

So generally you would have profuse your right-operate extremity first You know because remember your right-socklivian artery comes off very early from the order So it's like not a big deal So your right extremities will be profused well, but your left extremities may not be profused well Because the problem may have happened like before the take off of the left-socklivian artery or something like that Or just at the sublivian artery In fact, I'm going to tell you this What is the most common location of aortic tear in a trauma situation? I want you to pick the answer choice that says at the sublivian artery I can almost promise you on your exams They will make it a multiple choice obviously it's going to be multiple choice And they will give you an answer that says Before you know the Left-socklivian artery and then they'll give you another answer that says at the sublivian artery They'll give you another answer that says Distell to the sublivian artery I would really want you to pick the answer choice that talks about at the sublivian artery, right? And many times they can even ask you on your exams because again, they love prognoses Right, they love prognostic questions a lot maybe not so much on step one But definitely on step two and absolutely positively on step three step two and step three. Oh my goodness They love prognostic questions, right?

In fact That's something that is beginning to have more and more emphasis on the on the usmeli exams on the usmeli exams, right? On the usmeli exams So the thing is what's going to be the most likely outcome of an aortic tear of an aortic rupture? I'm going to tell you that your exams is going to be death, right? Most of those people they are not going to even make it to the hospital in one piece They're going to basically die at the scene they're going to die at the scene, right? They're going to die at the scene, right? And if you want to make the diagnosis on the exam if the person is stable, you can do a chest CT You can literally do a chest CT, right? You can do a chest CT, right? You can do a chest CT, you can do a chest CT and yoga, right? Well many times those people are like very unstable All you got going for you is a chest x-ray And then they may ask you what is the most appropriate next best step in management? Please pick the answer that says to perform a thoracotomy, pick the answer that says to do a thoracotomy You know, basically go ahead and pick the answer that says to do a surgical exploration of the chest To go ahead and do a surgical exploration of the of the chest, right?

And then I think the last thing I'm going to talk about Just like we talked about pulmonary contusion Remembering you exams they can also test myocardial contusion Myocardial contusion This is going to be a person that would have been in trauma, you know like hours ago All right, the person that had been in trauma hours ago And then you also notice that this person is having a lot of chest pain You know a lot of chest pain and they may tell you that an EKG, you know, Make sure like some kind of abnormality So they may have like arrhythmia on an EKG And you may even notice that they may have slight elevations in their troponins Right? Please don't pick the answer that says it's a myocardial infarction No, no Right? After trauma, don't do that It's really trauma from like a few minutes few hours ago Don't pick an MI answer This person literally has a myocardial contusion Right? This is pretty much like blonde cardiac injury Another name is blonde cardiac injury Remember we said that another name for pulmonary contusion is blonde pulmonary injury Right? So typically for these people you're going to put them on and you know You're going to hook them up to a cardiac monitor Right? You're going to give them something for their pain You don't have to take them to the operating room Right?

But if they start becoming very unstable Then yes, they may require cardiac surgery But for the most part, these people just need supportive care Hook them up to a cardiac monitor If they have a epoxy, give them some oxygen Right? Give them something for their chest pain And that would pretty much be it Right? That would pretty much be That would pretty much be it So again, I think this is probably a You know what? Let me talk about like one or two more things How's that? Let's talk about one or two more things I'm kind of in a hurry I have an appointment But let me talk about a few more things Right? So what if they give you a question about a patient And they tell you that this patient Was in some kind of you know, trauma situation Right? This patient was in some kind of trauma situation And the person has like a like a horse voice Right? The person has a horse voice And this person has subcutaneous infosima So they have like a horse voice And they have subcutaneous infosima Do you want to pick the answer that says So for your rupture this time? Probably not You probably want to pick the answer that talks about Just the person having some kind of neck injury Some kind of neck injury Right? Whenever a person has neck injury Honestly, the thing you usually want to do on your exams Is just take them to the operating room Right? Go ahead and take them to the operating room Go ahead and take them to the operating room Right?

neck injury is a very complex And you may want to start doing like crazy things No, don't do any crazy thing at the bedside The neck is a very very complex region of the body It's not smart, it is not wise To try to say Oh, let me start Let me see the extent of the injury in the emergency room No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no There's the neck I mean people that I had at neck surgeons More power to them Right? There's just a lot of But like let me not say but it's not bad stuff that's in your neck But there's a lot going on in the neck The neck is a small space with a lot of things going on Right? So you want to make sure that you go to the operating room Right? You want to make sure you go to the operating room Right? So please subcutaneous and pizema It's not only caused by a severe general rupture You can also find it with neck injury You may also find it with neck injury You may also find it with neck injury On your exams Right? So please keep that at the back of your mind On tests Right? A person may have been stabbed in the neck A person may have been in a motor vehicle accident Or something along those lines Right? Or something along those lines So kind of keep that at the back of your mind for, for exams Right? And You know, two more associations I want to mention Sorry, it's just quite a number of things here That are kind of high you to know Right?

What if they give you a question about a person that's in a trauma And then they tell you that this person has this post-atal mask in the neck And they ask you what is your most appropriate next best step in management Well, your most appropriate next best step in management Is going to be endotracheal intuition Whenever a person has an expanding hematoma in the neck An expanding hematoma in the neck Your next step on the exams Should always always always always be endotracheal intuition That's a very very high you that's a position to know On your exams Another weird thing with endotracheal intuition to know for your exams Is what if they give you a question about a person That was in a house fire And the person is minimally responsive And they tell you that examination of the early kind of shows like burns Like the person's mouth is burned You know the person's like moustache appears like singed Right? You may be worried about inhalation all injury in that person Your next step in management for that person Is to go ahead and into bed Whenever you expect whenever you suspect Inhalation all injury Your smart next step is going to be endotracheal intuition On your exams Okay, it's going to be endotracheal intuition on your exams And then another thing that's kind of like chest and neck related Right?

What if they give you a question about a person That you know was in trauma And you know the person you know has decreased breath sounds on one side Right of the chest And then they tell you that you know a tooth or a costum is performed Right? Basically that's another name for chest you You do that And then they tell you that the person appears to have a persistent early A persistent early Keep this word in mind Persistent early If you see a persistent early And they ask you what is the most likely diagnosis I want you to think of the person having a ruptured trachea Or ruptured broncus Or ruptured trachea or ruptured broncus So you may ask yourself define What in the world do you mean by an early Basically see Air has certain locations is supposed to be in your thoracic cavity So it's supposed to be in your earway Or you're supposed to be within your own view of your life A pneumothorax believe it or not Is an example of an early Right? Because air is collecting in the plural cavity It's not supposed to collect there Right? So if you do a chest tube Right? If you do a chest tube Ideally you know That should kind of conduct that airway But if you notice that wow This person has this persistent early It's almost like this pneumothorax is not resolving at all Despite you placing a chest tube Despite you doing tube thoracostomy It tells you that some major early has ruptured Like either like the trachea One of your bronchi Okay?

I promise you you may say that there is no way they could ever test this on an exam Once you actually see it or not test it and you're like Whoa Where did this come from? So please keep this at the back of your mind For for your test Okay?

A persistent ear leak A persistent ear leak So I think I should go ahead and stop here Again, please this podcast I promise you this podcast is actually pretty high You to know for your for your exams And again I do have a series of review classes Taking place this month Starting on the 18th of March I have a test taking class I have a bio stats class after that I have a social sciences and ethics class These three classes are for step one or with step three And then I have a three hour last mini review And a 20 hour USMLE step two and step three review Those last two classes are more for step two step three And then in the month of June And this one has very very limited spots available And I have a 50 hour step two step three class Again, I've made dedicated podcasts Where I talked about these classes Where I talk about the benefits of these classes Even over my podcasts And they're all over Zoom And again, many people have taken these classes And found them to be extremely helpful And then I also offer one or one tutoring For all the USMLE exams And for all the complex exams And then I also Have these podcasts on Apple Google and Spotify So check those out And in addition, I also have a You Tube channel Divine intervention USMLE podcasts and videos That's where I post the videos that I make And then I have another website Core Divine Intervention Lifelesses.com You know every week many of you know I'm a Christian Every week from a biblical perspective Dressed like two or three life lessons So I make like two or three podcasts every week Actually have I think more than 310 podcasts As of this count There's actually an Apple podcast associated with this It's called the Divine Intervention Life Lessons Podcast Again, many people listen to those And find those to be helpful And also I offer coaching for ER As applications Mark interviews, personal statements You know editin

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Blunt force trauma to the chest, presenting hours later with hypoxia and interstitial infiltrates on CXR.

The liver exerts a "buffering effect" or protective barrier on the right side, making the left side the weakest point of the diaphragm.

Pulmonary hypoplasia, because abdominal contents take up space needed for proper lung development.

Water-soluble contrast (e.g., Gastrografin), never barium, due to the risk of severe mediastinitis from leaked barium.

At or near the subclavian artery.

Endotracheal intubation (to secure the airway).

Ruptured diaphragm.

Scaphoid abdomen and left-sided presentation.

Lack of space for lung development due to abdominal contents occupying the thoracic cavity.

Potential perforation/tear of the esophagus.

Endotracheal intubation (Airway control).

Myocardial contusion (Blunt cardiac injury).

A major airway rupture, such as a ruptured trachea or bronchus.

Ruptured diaphragm.

Scaphoid abdomen and left-sided presentation.

Lack of space for lung development due to abdominal contents occupying the thoracic cavity.

Potential perforation/tear of the esophagus.

Endotracheal intubation (Airway control).

Myocardial contusion (Blunt cardiac injury).

A major airway rupture, such as a ruptured trachea or bronchus.