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Selective bronchial intubation for acute post-operative atelectasis in neonates and infants
H Rode1, A J Millar, R J Stunden
1Department of Paediatric Surgery, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.
Pediatric Radiology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Selective bronchial intubation and lavage under fluoroscopic control was performed in 10 surgical neonates and infants to clear lobar atelectasis, after standard physiotherapeutic techniques had failed. Full re-expansion of the lung was obtained in all cases. The indications and techniques of selective bronchial intubation and lavage are described. This manoeuvre can be recommended in early post-operative atelectasis in neonates and infants if non-invasive measures have failed.