Tension Pneumothorax During Rigid Bronchoscopy for Chronic Foreign Body Removal in a Child: A Case Report

Rigid bronchoscopy for chronic foreign body removal can cause rare but life-threatening complications in the form of tension pneumothorax. A two-year-old child who developed sudden cardiac arrest during the procedure required urgent chest tube insertion. Integrated team effort with effective communi...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Akshay, Shiwalkar, Nimisha, Aslam, Hunain, Persaud, Purnadeo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Pediatric Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31700731
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5628
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description Rigid bronchoscopy for chronic foreign body removal can cause rare but life-threatening complications in the form of tension pneumothorax. A two-year-old child who developed sudden cardiac arrest during the procedure required urgent chest tube insertion. Integrated team effort with effective communication prevented devastating neurological sequelae from hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
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spelling pubmed-68229142019-11-07 Tension Pneumothorax During Rigid Bronchoscopy for Chronic Foreign Body Removal in a Child: A Case Report Kumar, Akshay Shiwalkar, Nimisha Aslam, Hunain Persaud, Purnadeo Cureus Pediatric Surgery Rigid bronchoscopy for chronic foreign body removal can cause rare but life-threatening complications in the form of tension pneumothorax. A two-year-old child who developed sudden cardiac arrest during the procedure required urgent chest tube insertion. Integrated team effort with effective communication prevented devastating neurological sequelae from hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Cureus 2019-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6822914/ /pubmed/31700731 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5628 Text en Copyright © 2019, Kumar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Tension Pneumothorax During Rigid Bronchoscopy for Chronic Foreign Body Removal in a Child: A Case Report
title_full Tension Pneumothorax During Rigid Bronchoscopy for Chronic Foreign Body Removal in a Child: A Case Report
title_fullStr Tension Pneumothorax During Rigid Bronchoscopy for Chronic Foreign Body Removal in a Child: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Tension Pneumothorax During Rigid Bronchoscopy for Chronic Foreign Body Removal in a Child: A Case Report
title_short Tension Pneumothorax During Rigid Bronchoscopy for Chronic Foreign Body Removal in a Child: A Case Report
title_sort tension pneumothorax during rigid bronchoscopy for chronic foreign body removal in a child: a case report
topic Pediatric Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822914/
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