Erschienen in:
31.03.2016 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
Ultrasonographic diagnosis of tracheal compression
verfasst von:
Oliviero Fochi, Moreno Favarato, Ezio Bonanomi
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2016
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Excerpt
A 3-year-old child with a history of surgery for esophageal atresia suffered an episode of sudden respiratory distress, severe cyanosis and loss of consciousness at home while eating potatoes. He was resuscitated by the emergency medical service and transported to our hospital, where he was intubated, stabilized and transferred to our intensive care unit. The chest X-ray was unremarkable, while a right upper lobe atelectasis was visible on pulmonary ultrasonography (US). Bronchoscopy revealed a compression of the lower two-thirds of a seemingly malacic trachea, extending to the carina and the right main bronchus. No foreign body was visible. …