ABSTRACT
ADDRESSING THE RISK ■ Airway, breathing, circulation, and differential ■ Evaluate and manage concurrently. ■ If patient is actively bleeding, high operative mortality; thus,
stop the bleeding. ■ Surgery-only for a good operative candidate with local-
ized bleeding ■ High-resolution CT and bronchoscopy are complementary
sis (Table 1). ■ Mnemonic device-very fast docs pitch in (vascular, facti-
tious, drugs/toxins, other, cavitary, systemic disease, pulmonary, iatrogenic, trauma, cardiac, hematologic, infection, neoplastic) (Table 1)
DIFFERENTIATING THE DIFFERENTIAL ■ Diagnoses suspected on the basis of the history and physical
exam findings are listed in Table 2.
