Question

A mediastinal shift occurs in which type of chest disorder? tension pneumothorax simple pneumothorax cardiac tamponade traumatic pneumothorax

Answer 1

Mediastinal shift occurs in Tension pneumothorax. A tension pneumothorax makes the lung to collapse and the heart, the trachea and the great vessels, to shift toward the unaffected side of the chest. When air moves out from a laceration in the lung and goes in the pleural space or infiltrate the pleural space over a wound in the chest wall the shift happens.