Pneumothorax in a post-anesthetic care unit after right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection -A case report-

A 46-year-old woman underwent a right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection under general anesthesia. The operation was performed successfully for over the course of 3 hours 30 minutes. After extubation, the patient was transferred to post-anesthetic care unit (PACU). After 10 minutes, dyspnea, ch...

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Autores principales: Lee, Sang Jun, Lee, Dong-Jun, Kim, Mun-Cheol, Im, Ui-Jae
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21253383
http://dx.doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2010.59.6.429
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description A 46-year-old woman underwent a right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection under general anesthesia. The operation was performed successfully for over the course of 3 hours 30 minutes. After extubation, the patient was transferred to post-anesthetic care unit (PACU). After 10 minutes, dyspnea, chest discomfort, desaturation was suddenly occurred. Intubation was performed in PACU. The emergency chest X-ray revealed a right pneumothorax, and the patient was treated by chest tube insertion. The patient was improved and was discharged uneventfully from hospital 8 days later.
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spelling pubmed-30221392011-01-20 Pneumothorax in a post-anesthetic care unit after right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection -A case report- Lee, Sang Jun Lee, Dong-Jun Kim, Mun-Cheol Im, Ui-Jae Korean J Anesthesiol Case Report A 46-year-old woman underwent a right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection under general anesthesia. The operation was performed successfully for over the course of 3 hours 30 minutes. After extubation, the patient was transferred to post-anesthetic care unit (PACU). After 10 minutes, dyspnea, chest discomfort, desaturation was suddenly occurred. Intubation was performed in PACU. The emergency chest X-ray revealed a right pneumothorax, and the patient was treated by chest tube insertion. The patient was improved and was discharged uneventfully from hospital 8 days later. The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists 2010-12 2010-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3022139/ /pubmed/21253383 http://dx.doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2010.59.6.429 Text en Copyright © The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, 2010 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lee, Sang Jun
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Kim, Mun-Cheol
Im, Ui-Jae
Pneumothorax in a post-anesthetic care unit after right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection -A case report-
title Pneumothorax in a post-anesthetic care unit after right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection -A case report-
title_full Pneumothorax in a post-anesthetic care unit after right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection -A case report-
title_fullStr Pneumothorax in a post-anesthetic care unit after right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection -A case report-
title_full_unstemmed Pneumothorax in a post-anesthetic care unit after right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection -A case report-
title_short Pneumothorax in a post-anesthetic care unit after right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection -A case report-
title_sort pneumothorax in a post-anesthetic care unit after right thyroidectomy with left neck dissection -a case report-
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21253383
http://dx.doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2010.59.6.429
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