Successful Use of Extracorporeal Life Support after Double Traumatic Tracheobronchial Injury in a Patient with Severe Acute Asthma | Zendy

Xavier Valette | Zendy; Aurélie Desjouis | Zendy; Massimo Massetti | Zendy; JeanLuc Hanouz | Zendy; Philippe Icard | Zendy

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Successful Use of Extracorporeal Life Support after Double Traumatic Tracheobronchial Injury in a Patient with Severe Acute Asthma

Author(s) -

Xavier Valette,

Aurélie Desjouis,

Massimo Massetti,

JeanLuc Hanouz,

Philippe Icard

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

pulmonary medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.528

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 2090-1836

pISSN - 2090-1844

DOI - 10.1155/2011/936240

Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , extracorporeal , life support , surgery , intensive care medicine

We report the case of an asthmatic patient with blunt trachea and left main bronchus injuries who developed acute severe asthma after surgical repair. Despite medical treatment and ventilatory support, asthma persisted with high airway pressures and severe respiratory acidosis. We proposed venovenous extracorporeal life support for CO 2 removal which allowed arterial blood gas normalization and airway pressures decrease. Extracorporeal life support was removed on day five after medical treatment of acute severe asthma. So we report the successful use of extracorporeal life support for operated double blunt tracheobronchial injury with acute severe asthma.

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