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Contralateral tension pneumothorax during one-lung ventilation for lobectomy: diagnosis aided by fiberoptic
Sundeep Malik1, William A Shapiro, David Jablons
1Department of Anesthesia, University of California-San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0648, USA.
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|August 29, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
Tension pneumothorax during one-lung ventilation can be a life threatening emergency. Clinical diagnosis may be confusing in the operative setting. We present a case in which fiberoptic bronchoscopy excluded tube malpositioning and lead us to the diagnosis of a tension pneumothorax.