title: Respiratory distress syndrome and tracheoesophageal fistula: management with high-frequency ventilation.
abstract: An 1180-g infant with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula developed life-threatening respiratory distress syndrome. Conventional mechanical ventilation resulted in gastric perforation and pneumoperitoneum. High-frequency ventilation stabilized the infant, permitting distal occlusion of the esophagus with a Silastic band. Fistula ligation was subsequently performed under more optimal physiologic conditions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Perinatal Medicine, HCA Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS 67214.
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Bloom
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Delmore
authors.forename: Y I
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D004933:Esophageal Atresia / Q000150:complications*; D006612:High-Frequency Ventilation; D006801:Humans; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D014138:Tracheoesophageal Fistula / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital*