How to treat pneumothorax at eighty

Eighty years old pneumothorax can be improved by medication, exhaustion treatment as well as surgical treatment. 1. Drug treatment: Morphine and other sedation can be used, which can reduce the patient’s pain. If combined with pneumonia or infection, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime and other anti-infection treatment can be used. 2. Ventilation treatment: Thoracentesis aspiration is suitable for patients with small amount of pneumothorax and less severe dyspnea with eighty pneumothorax. For simple pumping failure, or unstable pneumothorax, open or tension pneumothorax with more serious dyspnea, closed chest drainage can be adopted. 3. Surgical treatment: after the internal medicine treatment is invalid, long-term pneumothorax, hemopneumothorax or recurrent pneumothorax of eighty-year-old patients with pneumothorax, can take surgical treatment. It is mainly divided into thoracoscopic surgery and open heart surgery. Eighty-year-old pneumothorax may also be combined with other underlying diseases, it is recommended that once it occurs, timely medical treatment, improve the examination, and cooperate with the doctor to carry out treatment.