Skin avulsion injury during endotracheal tube extubation – case report of an unusual complication

We report a geriatric case with a full-thickness skin avulsion injury during extubation due to a tube securing tape used to fixate the endotracheal tube. The avulsed skin was sutured back to its original place. Based on this single geriatric patient, we recommend anesthesiologists/anesthetists and s...

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Autores principales: Yilmaz, Berkhan, Colakoglu, Kutay, Gurunluoglu, Raffi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2438342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18495010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-2-12
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description We report a geriatric case with a full-thickness skin avulsion injury during extubation due to a tube securing tape used to fixate the endotracheal tube. The avulsed skin was sutured back to its original place. Based on this single geriatric patient, we recommend anesthesiologists/anesthetists and surgeons be aware of the potential risk of avulsing the skin with tape during a standard extubation procedure. This may especially occur in geriatric patients who have age related changes as decreased elasticity and resistance to shearing forces that predispose the skin to get traumatized easily.
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spelling pubmed-24383422008-06-25 Skin avulsion injury during endotracheal tube extubation – case report of an unusual complication Yilmaz, Berkhan Colakoglu, Kutay Gurunluoglu, Raffi Patient Saf Surg Case Report We report a geriatric case with a full-thickness skin avulsion injury during extubation due to a tube securing tape used to fixate the endotracheal tube. The avulsed skin was sutured back to its original place. Based on this single geriatric patient, we recommend anesthesiologists/anesthetists and surgeons be aware of the potential risk of avulsing the skin with tape during a standard extubation procedure. This may especially occur in geriatric patients who have age related changes as decreased elasticity and resistance to shearing forces that predispose the skin to get traumatized easily. BioMed Central 2008-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2438342/ /pubmed/18495010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-2-12 Text en Copyright © 2008 Yilmaz et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Skin avulsion injury during endotracheal tube extubation – case report of an unusual complication
title Skin avulsion injury during endotracheal tube extubation – case report of an unusual complication
title_full Skin avulsion injury during endotracheal tube extubation – case report of an unusual complication
title_fullStr Skin avulsion injury during endotracheal tube extubation – case report of an unusual complication
title_full_unstemmed Skin avulsion injury during endotracheal tube extubation – case report of an unusual complication
title_short Skin avulsion injury during endotracheal tube extubation – case report of an unusual complication
title_sort skin avulsion injury during endotracheal tube extubation – case report of an unusual complication
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2438342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18495010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-2-12
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