Abstract
A previously healthy 20-year-old male trainee developed chest pain, shortness of breath, and neck pain after repeatedly shouting "Hooah!" during a motivational squad competition. He was found to have developed a pneumomediastinum with soft tissue crepitus of the neck. He had an uneventful recovery. Unique to the military training environment, vigorous shouting, including "Hooah!" as a motivational stimulus, can have barotraumatic consequences. The term "spontaneous" as applied to a pneumomediastinum diagnosis is examined and the auscultatory fi nding of "Hamman's sign" is reviewed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 352-355 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Military medicine |
Volume | 176 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health