Tension pneumoperitoneum
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C Ralston1, T H Clutton-Brock, P Hutton
1Department of Anaesthetics, University of Birmingham, England.
Intensive Care Medicine
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 26-year-old woman developed the adult respiratory distress syndrome after a post-partum haemorrhage. After mechanical ventilation was started the signs of a tense and distended acute abdomen developed. The aspiration and subsequent analysis of copious intra-peritoneal gas confirmed the diagnosis of a tension pneumoperitoneum secondary to pulmonary barotrauma.