Weaning difficulty in a near hanging patient: An unusual cause

Suicidal hanging causes damage to the airways, neck blood vessels as well as soft tissue injuries. We report the development of tracheo-esophageal fistula in such a patient. Recurrent soiling of the airways and the resultant lung infection led to weaning failure. We highlight the approach to diagnos...

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Autores principales: Ray, Animesh, Sharma, Vikas, Ali, Ashif, Das, Shantanu Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5592761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28869234
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.213835
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description Suicidal hanging causes damage to the airways, neck blood vessels as well as soft tissue injuries. We report the development of tracheo-esophageal fistula in such a patient. Recurrent soiling of the airways and the resultant lung infection led to weaning failure. We highlight the approach to diagnosis and appropriate management in such a patient.
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spelling pubmed-55927612017-09-19 Weaning difficulty in a near hanging patient: An unusual cause Ray, Animesh Sharma, Vikas Ali, Ashif Das, Shantanu Kumar Lung India Case Report Suicidal hanging causes damage to the airways, neck blood vessels as well as soft tissue injuries. We report the development of tracheo-esophageal fistula in such a patient. Recurrent soiling of the airways and the resultant lung infection led to weaning failure. We highlight the approach to diagnosis and appropriate management in such a patient. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5592761/ /pubmed/28869234 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.213835 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Chest Society 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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