Table 5.

Treatments and drugs used for patients with spontaneous pneumothorax

Treatment			Drugs
	n	%*		n	%†
Total count of prescription statements	21 107			37 488
Non-surgical treatments			Analgesics
Oxygen inhalation	4351	20.6	Paracetamol	1039	2.8
Nebuliser treatment of lower airway	534	2.5	Codeine, combinations excluding psycholeptics	878	2.3
Suction drainage or tracheostomy suction, etc	2481	11.8	Tramadol and paracetamol	832	2.2
Tracheal intubation	81	0.4	Propionic acid derivatives	784	2.1
Surgical treatments			Aceclofenac	455	1.2
Thoracostomy	3132	14.8	Antitussives
Wedge resection of lung	1304	6.2	Acetylcysteine	672	1.8
Resection of bullae	125	0.6	Xanthines	635	1.7
Pleurodesis	27	0.1	Bromhexine	789	2.1
Apicolysis, pleurolysis	15	0.1	Ambroxol	553	1.5
Lobectomy of lung	13	0.1	Antibiotics
Pleurectomy	12	0.1	Cefixime	374	1.0
Segmentectomy of lung	10	0.0	Third-generation cephalosporins	305	0.8
Pleural decortication	8	0.0
Primary thoracoplasty	4	0.0

*%=n/21 107.

†%=n/37 488.