Extubation failure due to phrenic nerve injury
Open Access
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal
- Vol. 88 (1), 72F-73
- https://doi.org/10.1136/fn.88.1.f72
Abstract
A 26 week gestation infant had an increasingly elevated right hemidiaphragm following drainage of bilateral pleural effusions and failed extubation on numerous occasions. Electric stimulation of the phrenic nerves revealed absent activity on the right, indicating phrenic nerve injury from chest tube drain insertion. Diaphragmatic plication was performed and the infant successfully extubated four days later.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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