Open AccessRIGHT PNEUMOTHORAX SECONDARY TO REMOVAL OF NASOGASTRIC TUBE
Author(s) -
Francesco Inzirillo,
Eugenio Ravalli,
Casimiro Giorgetta,
Francesco Sangrigoli,
Alessia Marziani
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of surgery and medicine/international journal of surgery and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2367-7414
pISSN - 2367-699X
DOI - 10.5455/ijsm.pneumothorax
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumothorax , tube (container) , chest tube , general surgery , surgery , waste management , engineering
Malpositioning of the nasogastric tube into the airway is one of the most frequent complications and the consequences of improper positioning of the tube in the airways depend on several factors: creation or not of a pleuro-pulmonary fistula, introduction or not of drugs into the tube, the overall clinical condition of the patient. A pneumonia caused by instillation of drugs or a pneumothorax or a mediastinitis may precipitate a clinical situation already basically compromised