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Prone ventilation in a patient with severe ARDS having a floating sternum

Author(s) -

Alok Kumar Sahoo,

Swagata Tripathy,

Santosh Kumar Singh

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

bmj case reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.231

H-Index - 26

ISSN - 1757-790X

DOI - 10.1136/bcr-2018-227892

Subject(s) - sternum , ards , medicine , prone position , ventilation (architecture) , acute respiratory distress , contraindication , mechanical ventilation , intensive care unit , anesthesia , surgery , intensive care medicine , lung , engineering , mechanical engineering , alternative medicine , pathology

Prone ventilation is used to manage patients with refractory hypoxia in the critical care unit. Complex chest trauma and chest drains have been a considered relative contraindication to prone ventilation. To the best of our knowledge, it is hitherto unreported in patients having traumatic floating sternum and acute respiratory distress. We present a brief case report of a patient with floating sternum (complete disruption of sternum) managed successfully by prone position ventilation.

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