Ultrasonography for trauma is an integral part of the Advanced Trauma Life Support algorithm and supported extensively in the literature. The reliability of chest ultrasonography as a screening examination for pneumothorax during initial trauma evaluation is unclear. We performed a prospective study where we hypothesized that chest ultrasonography would have low sensitivity for detecting clinically significant pneumothorax.
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