I've heard of cases of acupuncture-induced pneumothorax, but never bilateral pnumothoraces before.
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And bilateral TENSION pnumothoraces, at that! That's something I've never seen, even back when I still did trauma call.
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Some acupuncture points are on the inside of organs.
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Oooh! There were a some cases here in Denmark a few years back. An elderly man died from the complications.

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True. This was a patient who suffered from hickups (caused by cancer chemotherapy). A political initiative to prohibit non-doctors from performing acupuncture on the thorax was dropped because it was a threat to the acupuncturist profession.
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Sorry silly Q: they had air in both(!) sides of the chest cavity? Did they do a stereo accupuncture?



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