Displacement of a minitracheotomy tube during high frequency jet ventilation.
A patient required respiratory support with jet ventilation via a minitracheotomy tube 2 days after right upper lobectomy. After initial improvement, the patient's condition deteriorated because of migration of the minitracheotomy tube out of the larynx. This complication has not been described previously. A number of possible causative factors and remedies are discussed.
Department of Anaesthetics, St. George's Hospital, Tooting, London.
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D000368:Aged; D004869:Equipment Safety; D005260:Female; D006611:High-Frequency Jet Ventilation / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*; D014140:Tracheotomy / Q000295:instrumentation*