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Case Reports
The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy in the delayed surgical repair of a tracheal injury.
- Karan Sian, Brylie McAllister, and Peter Brady.
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Electronic address: ksia3999@gmail.com.
- Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2014 Jan 1;97(1):338-40.
AbstractAcute tracheal injury secondary to intubation can present with varying degrees of severity. Onset of symptoms occur hours or even days after the initial injury. A 34-year-old woman required surgery for a large tracheal tear after emergency intubation. The inability to adequately ventilate combined with secondary aspiration injury required that the patient be placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation before undergoing surgery. This case demonstrates the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to manage a patient awaiting surgery for severe tracheal tears.Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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