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How we managed a difficult to ventilate patient
A 40-year-old female presented with respiratory difficulty, cough and sputum with blood streaking. Her right lung was destroyed, and trachea was shifted to the same side. On mechanical ventilation, she developed hypoxia and rise in blood pressure. Ventilator was not delivering set tidal volume. Afte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25983435 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.156478 |
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description | A 40-year-old female presented with respiratory difficulty, cough and sputum with blood streaking. Her right lung was destroyed, and trachea was shifted to the same side. On mechanical ventilation, she developed hypoxia and rise in blood pressure. Ventilator was not delivering set tidal volume. After looking into the cause, it was decided to reintubate the patient with new endotracheal tube after cutting bevel. Thereafter, there was successful ventilation. |
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spelling | pubmed-44307472015-05-15 How we managed a difficult to ventilate patient Garg, Sunil Kumar Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report A 40-year-old female presented with respiratory difficulty, cough and sputum with blood streaking. Her right lung was destroyed, and trachea was shifted to the same side. On mechanical ventilation, she developed hypoxia and rise in blood pressure. Ventilator was not delivering set tidal volume. After looking into the cause, it was decided to reintubate the patient with new endotracheal tube after cutting bevel. Thereafter, there was successful ventilation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4430747/ /pubmed/25983435 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.156478 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Garg, Sunil Kumar How we managed a difficult to ventilate patient |
title | How we managed a difficult to ventilate patient |
title_full | How we managed a difficult to ventilate patient |
title_fullStr | How we managed a difficult to ventilate patient |
title_full_unstemmed | How we managed a difficult to ventilate patient |
title_short | How we managed a difficult to ventilate patient |
title_sort | how we managed a difficult to ventilate patient |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25983435 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.156478 |
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