Circulatory Assistance in a Patient with Respiratory Failure
| Autor: | Leonardo Jadyr Silva Rodrigues Alves, Thiago do Amaral Cavalcante, Helmgton José Brito de Souza, Rafael Ramos Amaral |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Mechanical ventilation
ARDS business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Respiratory infection Pulmonary compliance medicine.disease Intensive care unit law.invention Hypoxemia surgical procedures operative Respiratory failure law Anesthesia medicine Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Cardiovascular Surgery ISBN: 9783319570839 |
| Popis: | Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a disease in which the lungs suffer from severe inflammation with hypoxemia and respiratory failure. This interferes with lung compliance and results in bilateral and diffuse damage. Its etiology may be infective or non-infective. Treatment for this disorder includes, in severe cases, the use of circulatory assistance devices such as ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), which allows patients with respiratory or cardiac failure to be on circulatory assistance outside the operating room under observation. Here we present the case of a 33-year-old man who was admitted to the emergency room with respiratory failure after a suicide attempt with a blunt weapon. He was placed on mechanical ventilation, being diagnosed, after emergency intubation, with a bilateral pneumothorax. Following a bilateral thoracic drainage, he was transferred to the intensive care unit, rapidly developing respiratory infection and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), failing to respond after prone positioning and alveolar recruitment. Considering the worsening infection and multiple organ failure and in order to prevent imminent death, he was placed on veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO). Progressive improvement was evident from the fourth day following the ECMO installment, and the device was explanted at the eighth day, after significant recovery. ECMO proved to be an effective measure to improve acute respiratory distress syndrome in this patient. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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