Breath-holding in a marijuana smoker

It is vital to ask about illicit drug smoking in the respiratory history as marijuana smoking augments the detrimental effects of tobacco. We describe the case of a 28 year old marijuana smoker who developed a pneumothorax during a breath-holding competition. Pneumothorax is a common clinical entity...

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Autores principales: Aujayeb, Avinash, Donald, Calum, Doe, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26056987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.07.008
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description It is vital to ask about illicit drug smoking in the respiratory history as marijuana smoking augments the detrimental effects of tobacco. We describe the case of a 28 year old marijuana smoker who developed a pneumothorax during a breath-holding competition. Pneumothorax is a common clinical entity that every physician should be aware of how to manage and lifetime risk is considerably increased by smoking and in exposure to barotrauma.
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spelling pubmed-39203752014-10-15 Breath-holding in a marijuana smoker Aujayeb, Avinash Donald, Calum Doe, Simon Respir Med Case Rep Case Report It is vital to ask about illicit drug smoking in the respiratory history as marijuana smoking augments the detrimental effects of tobacco. We describe the case of a 28 year old marijuana smoker who developed a pneumothorax during a breath-holding competition. Pneumothorax is a common clinical entity that every physician should be aware of how to manage and lifetime risk is considerably increased by smoking and in exposure to barotrauma. Elsevier 2011-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3920375/ /pubmed/26056987 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.07.008 Text en © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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