Aspiration Pneumonia Due to Aspiration of Intestinal Fluid during Mechanical Ventilation in a Septic Patient / 대한마취과학회지
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
;
: 694-698, 2002.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-88678
ABSTRACT
Pulmonary aspiration is one of the most common complications and leading cause of high morbidity and mortality from tracheal intubation under mechanical ventilation. We experienced a case of severe aspiration pneumonia leading to death in a sixty-year old male patient who was under mechanical ventilation due to sepsis after intestinal perforation. In his past history, he had undergone a radical total gastrectomy due to advanced gastric cancer, and this time, he got almost a total small bowel resection due to small bowel perforation and gangrenous change. He was admitted to the Surgical ICU for postoperative care due to sepsis. At first his condition was very poor. Aggressive therapy with hemodynamic monitoring was performed, and there had been much improvement in his condition. On the 8 th ICU day, there was a large amount out of greenish intestinal fluid and increased endotracheal secretions of the same color. At that time, there was no air leak around the trachea and his tidal volume on ventilator was the same as before. The pH of aspirated fluid was 6.8 and E. coli was cultured. Two days later, there was a diffuse ground glass appearance on the entire right lung field on his chest X-ray. On the 11 th ICU day, he expired.
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Main subject:
Pneumonia, Aspiration
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Postoperative Care
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Respiration, Artificial
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Stomach Neoplasms
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Thorax
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Trachea
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Ventilators, Mechanical
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Tidal Volume
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Mortality
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Sepsis
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
Year:
2002
Type:
Article
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