Open AccessThe Entrapped Intestinal Balloon
Author(s) -
R G Kulak,
Benjamin W. Friedman,
Irwin M. Gelernt,
N Jacobson
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-197803000-00017
Subject(s) - enterotomy , medicine , balloon , laparotomy , surgery , tube (container) , volume (thermodynamics) , waste management , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
The problem of an entrapped, distended intestinal tube balloon has been successfully resolved on four occasions by hyperbaric therapy. At four to five atmospheres absolute, the volume and diameter of the balloon in all four cases was reduced sufficiently to allow easy and safe extubation. The alternative approaches of forceful, traumatic extubation or laparotomy and enterotomy with their inherent dangers and problems were thus avoided.