title: Treatment of acute total atelectasis. Use of a double lumen tube.
abstract: Three cases are described of complete collapse of a lung in the absence of bronchial obstruction. The condition was treated by the application of a sustained high pressure (6 kPa) to the affected lung through one limb of a double lumen bronchial tube whilst intermittent positive pressure ventilation was continued through the other limb.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001980:Bronchi; D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D007385:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation; D007440:Intubation / Q000295:instrumentation; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D011859:Radiography