[A report of two fatal aspirations of nasal packings (author's transl)].
Both patients underwent septoplasty in general anaesthesia. Some minutes after extubation they aspirated nasal packings into the deep airway. Reanimation was successful at first, but both patients died seven days later to anoxic brain damage.
D000328:Adult; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012225:Rhinoplasty / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013630:Tampons, Surgical
Medico-legaler Beitrag zum Thema Fremdkörperaspiration. Aspiration von Nasentamponaden mit Todesfolge.