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Bilateral lung collapse in an asthmatic patient during thoracotomy
E H Nesbitt1, B K Temeck, K S Williams
1Department of Anesthesiology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 29892-1512, USA.
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
|September 1, 1997
Abstract:
Bilateral sequential pulmonary atelectasis occurred during median sternotomy for metastasis resection in a 19-year-old women with asthma. Collapse was secondary to mucus plugging and resolved with mechanical ventilation, suctioning, and treatment for bronchospasm.