A 50-year-old presents with hypotension, hypoxemia, and tracheal deviation to the left. tests reveal that the air pressure in the pleural cavity exceeds barometric pressure in the atmosphere. based upon these assessment findings, what does the nurse suspect the patient is experiencing?

The answer is tension pneumothorax. In addition, tension pneumothorax is the advanced construction of air in the pleural space typically due to a lung slit which permits air to discharge into the pleural space but not to reoccurrence and the positive compression air circulation may worsen the one-way-valve outcome.