Bilateral tension pneumothorax following rigid bronchoscopy: a report of an epignathus in a newborn delivered by the EXIT procedure with a fatal outcome
| Autor: | R Pratap, Neil Tolley, R P S Harar, Neil K. Chadha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment Positive pressure Epignathus Fatal Outcome Bronchoscopy Pregnancy medicine Humans Mechanical ventilation EXIT procedure medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Infant Newborn Teratoma Pneumothorax General Medicine respiratory system medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging respiratory tract diseases Surgery Oropharyngeal Neoplasms Otorhinolaryngology Anesthesia Female Airway business Complication |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of laryngology and otology. 119(5) |
| ISSN: | 0022-2151 |
| Popis: | We describe a case of a newborn baby with a prenatal diagnosis of an epignathus (oropharyngeal teratoma). With the potential for airway problems at birth, he was delivered by an elective EXIT (Extra Utero Intrapartum Treatment) procedure at 38 weeks of pregnancy. The airway was secured and rigid bronchoscopy performed. Initially he was stable, but developed cardiorespiratory difficulties 40 minutes after birth and died from a cardiac arrest 17 minuteslater. Tension pneumothorax is a devastating complication that can occur with lower airway manipulation for anaesthesia and rigid bronchoscopy. The addition of positive pressure during mechanical ventilation converts the pneumothorax into a tension pneumothorax. The possibility of tension pneumothorax should be entertained in a mechanically ventilated patient whose ventilatory pressures are increasing, with diminishing cardiac output. A complicated case is presented, where the diagnosis was missed with a fatal outcome. |
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