A 22-year-old female athlete is stabbed in her left chest at the third interspace in the...

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A 22-year-old female athlete is stabbed in her left chest at the third interspace in the anterior axillary line. On admission to the ED and 15 minutes after the incident, she is awake and alert. Her heart rate is 100 beats per minute, blood pressure is 80/60 mm Hg, and respiratory rate is 20 breaths per minute. A chest x-ray reveals a large left hemothorax. A left chest tube is placed with an immediate return of 1600 mL of blood. The next management step for this patient is to: Select one: a. b. C. d. e. perform a thoracoscopy perform an arch aortogram insert a second left chest tube prepare for an exploratory thoracotomy perform a chest CT A 22-year-old female athlete is stabbed in her left chest at the third interspace in the anterior axillary line. On admission to the ED and 15 minutes after the incident, she is awake and alert. Her heart rate is 100 beats per minute, blood pressure is 80/60 mm Hg, and respiratory rate is 20 breaths per minute. A chest x-ray reveals a large left hemothorax. A left chest tube is placed with an immediate return of 1600 mL of blood. The next management step for this patient is to: Select one: a. b. C. d. e. perform a thoracoscopy perform an arch aortogram insert a second left chest tube prepare for an exploratory thoracotomy perform a chest CT