The Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Surgical Repair of Bronchial Rupture / 대한구급학회지
The Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine
;
: 54-57, 2016.
Article
in English
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ABSTRACT
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been used successfully in critically ill patients with traumatic lung injury and offers an additional treatment modality. ECMO is mainly used as a bridge treatment to delayed surgical management; however, only a few case reports have presented the successful application of ECMO as intraoperative support during the surgical repair of traumatic bronchial injury. A 38-year-old man visited our hospital after a blunt chest trauma. His chest imaging showed hemopneumothorax in the left hemithorax and a finding suspicious for left main bronchus rupture. Bronchoscopy was performed and confirmed a tear in the left main bronchus and a congenital tracheal bronchus. We decided to provide venovenous ECMO support during surgery for bronchial repair. We successfully performed main bronchial repair in this traumatic patient with a congenital tracheal bronchus. We suggest that venovenous ECMO offers a good option for the treatment of bronchial rupture when adequate ventilation is not possible.
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Main subject:
Rupture
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Tears
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Thorax
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Ventilation
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Wounds, Nonpenetrating
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Bronchi
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Bronchoscopy
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
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Critical Illness
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Lung Injury
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
The Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
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