Management of Tension Pneumatocele with High-frequency Oscillatory Ventilation

Overview

Journal Chest

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2002 Jan 18

PMID 11796465

Citations 7

Authors

Hsiu-Nien Shen

Frank Leigh Lu

Huey-Dong Wu

Chong-Jen Yu

Pan-Chyr Yang

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Abstract

We report the successful application of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in a patient with tension pneumatocele (TP). The proposed check-valve mechanism for the development of pneumatoceles predicts that positive-pressure ventilation could lead to distension of these airspaces and formation of TPs. Therefore, high-frequency ventilation could be more applicable in conditions, such as massive air leak due to bronchopleural fistula, that are difficult to manage by conventional ventilator modes.

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