Posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube

This is a case report of a 28-year-old male patient with severe traumatic brain injury and Glasgow coma scale score = 8: E2 M5 V T , who required a tracheotomy for airway protection. On day 5, a surgical tracheotomy was performed with size 8 tracheotomy tube (TT). On the 4 th day of post-tracheostom...

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Autores principales: Sanjay Singhal, S Kiran, Avinash Das
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8f53e14cd6df48db8a3822671cbc0d902021-12-02T17:05:51ZPosterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube2231-07702249-446410.4103/2231-0770.114125https://doaj.org/article/8f53e14cd6df48db8a3822671cbc0d902013-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/2231-0770.114125https://doaj.org/toc/2231-0770https://doaj.org/toc/2249-4464This is a case report of a 28-year-old male patient with severe traumatic brain injury and Glasgow coma scale score = 8: E2 M5 V T , who required a tracheotomy for airway protection. On day 5, a surgical tracheotomy was performed with size 8 tracheotomy tube (TT). On the 4 th day of post-tracheostomy, he developed a sudden onset respiratory distress while on T-piece. Immediate fiber optic bronchoscopy revealed almost a complete closure of TT due to posterior tracheal wall indrawing into the TT with every inspiratory effort.Sanjay SinghalS KiranAvinash DasThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.articlelife-threateningtracheatracheostomyMedicineRENAvicenna Journal of Medicine, Vol 03, Iss 02, Pp 48-49 (2013)
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Sanjay Singhal
S Kiran
Avinash Das
Posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube
description This is a case report of a 28-year-old male patient with severe traumatic brain injury and Glasgow coma scale score = 8: E2 M5 V T , who required a tracheotomy for airway protection. On day 5, a surgical tracheotomy was performed with size 8 tracheotomy tube (TT). On the 4 th day of post-tracheostomy, he developed a sudden onset respiratory distress while on T-piece. Immediate fiber optic bronchoscopy revealed almost a complete closure of TT due to posterior tracheal wall indrawing into the TT with every inspiratory effort.
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Avinash Das
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title Posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube
title_short Posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube
title_full Posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube
title_fullStr Posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube
title_full_unstemmed Posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube
title_sort posterior tracheal wall leading to life-threatening obstruction of tracheostomy tube
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publishDate 2013
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