Journal
JOURNAL OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13019-015-0252-7
Keywords
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Tracheal injury; Conservative care
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- Research Institute for the Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital
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In patients with tracheal injuries, conservative treatment is an alternative approach when surgical treatment is difficult. However, the success rate of conservative treatment is low when a ventilator is used constantly because of underlying lung disease, and successful conservative treatment requires the maintenance of as much self-respiration as possible without a ventilator. Here, we report a case of lower tracheal injury in which both surgical and conservative treatments were difficult, but conservative treatment with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was successful while maintaining self-respiration without a ventilator.
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