Intraoesophageal placement of minitracheotomy tube.
A minitracheotomy tube was inadvertently placed in the oesophagus of a 22-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis. The authors discuss how this may have occurred and ways of avoiding this complication.
Ryan
D W
DW
General Intensive Therapy Unit, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
Dark
J H
JH
Misra
U
U
Pridie
A K
AK
D000328:Adult; D004947:Esophagus; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy; D014140:Tracheotomy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation