In order to avoid exacerbating a patient's injury, it is especially important to use extreme caution when providing positive-pressure ventilation to patients with a:
A. cardiac tamponade.
B. myocardial contusion.
C. pneumothorax.
D. flail chest.
Ans: C. pneumothorax.
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