[Answered]: A patient being mechanically ventilated with…

A patient being mechanically ventilated with positive end expiratory pressure and pressure support totaling 30 mm Hg has developed unequal chest expansion, absent breath sounds on the right, and tracheal deviation to the right. The patient is increasingly tachycardic, anxious, and agitated, and pulmonary compliance is rapidly decreasing. Which type of pneumothorax has this patient developed? geoquad Primary spontaneous pneumothorax geoquad Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax geoquad Tension pneumothorax geoquad Open pneumothorax