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Bilateral pneumothorax as a complication of changing tracheostomy tube
Roshni M Kundranda1, David Scott Trochtenberg
1Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, USA.
Tennessee Medicine : Journal of the Tennessee Medical Association
|May 31, 2003
Abstract:
A 43-year-old man with adult respiratory distress syndrome, secondary to pneumonia, developed bilateral pneumothorax on the fifth post-tracheostomy day, when the tracheostomy tube was being changed to a larger size tube in order to control bleeding from the tracheostomy site. This case demonstrates the potential danger of changing the tube in the postoperative period.