Open AccessProne 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) - medicine , ards , sternum , prone position , mechanical ventilation , intensive care unit , ventilation (architecture) , contraindication , extracorporeal membrane oxygenation , acute respiratory distress , supine position , anesthesia , surgery , intensive care medicine , lung , mechanical engineering , alternative medicine , pathology , engineering
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.