title: Use of ECMO for resection of post-traumatic ruptured lung abscess with empyema.
abstract: We report a patient who sustained multiple injuries from a motorcycle collision. He had a protracted intensive care course complicated by ventilator-associated pneumonia and empyema resulting from a ruptured lung abscess. He successfully underwent a thoracotomy, lung resection, decortication, and pleurectomy on veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. mbrenner@umm.edu
authors.forename: Megan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brenner
authors.forename: James V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Scalea
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000379:methods*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery*; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008169:Lung Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D055370:Lung Injury / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D053717:Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed