Unrecognized blunt tracheal trauma with massive pneumomediastinum and tension pneumothorax

Blunt neck trauma with an associated laryngotracheal injury is rare. We report a patient with blunt neck trauma who came to the emergency room and was sent to ward without realizing the seriousness of the situation. He presented later with respiratory distress and an anesthesiologist was called in f...

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Autores principales: Shetty, Nanda, Krishna, H M, Varghese, Elsa, Subhashree, J, Gupta, Arushi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21897522
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.83696
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author Shetty, Nanda
Krishna, H M
Varghese, Elsa
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Gupta, Arushi
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description Blunt neck trauma with an associated laryngotracheal injury is rare. We report a patient with blunt neck trauma who came to the emergency room and was sent to ward without realizing the seriousness of the situation. He presented later with respiratory distress and an anesthesiologist was called in for emergency airway management. Airway management in such a situation is described in this report.
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spelling pubmed-31614762011-09-06 Unrecognized blunt tracheal trauma with massive pneumomediastinum and tension pneumothorax Shetty, Nanda Krishna, H M Varghese, Elsa Subhashree, J Gupta, Arushi J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol Case Report Blunt neck trauma with an associated laryngotracheal injury is rare. We report a patient with blunt neck trauma who came to the emergency room and was sent to ward without realizing the seriousness of the situation. He presented later with respiratory distress and an anesthesiologist was called in for emergency airway management. Airway management in such a situation is described in this report. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3161476/ /pubmed/21897522 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.83696 Text en © Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shetty, Nanda
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Varghese, Elsa
Subhashree, J
Gupta, Arushi
Unrecognized blunt tracheal trauma with massive pneumomediastinum and tension pneumothorax
title Unrecognized blunt tracheal trauma with massive pneumomediastinum and tension pneumothorax
title_full Unrecognized blunt tracheal trauma with massive pneumomediastinum and tension pneumothorax
title_fullStr Unrecognized blunt tracheal trauma with massive pneumomediastinum and tension pneumothorax
title_full_unstemmed Unrecognized blunt tracheal trauma with massive pneumomediastinum and tension pneumothorax
title_short Unrecognized blunt tracheal trauma with massive pneumomediastinum and tension pneumothorax
title_sort unrecognized blunt tracheal trauma with massive pneumomediastinum and tension pneumothorax
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21897522
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.83696
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