Department

Emergency Ultrasound
Evaluation for Compromise of the Tank
Phillips Perera, MD, RDMS, FACEP, Thomas Mailhot, MD, RDMS, and Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCPC
2010:42(4):12-14.

The RUSH evaluation for “compromise of the tank” is used to identify a pneumothorax in a COPD patient who presents to the ED with shortness of breath and right-sided chest pain.


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