Iatrogenic Bilateral Pneumothorax And Massive  Subcutaneous Emphysema During Tracheostomy  Cannula Exchange

Umran Toru; Mehmet Sait İncebıyık; Zeki Tahsin Yapakcı; Aylin Zorlu; Tuncay Vatansever

Volume : IV, Issue : II, February - 2014

Iatrogenic Bilateral Pneumothorax And Massive Subcutaneous Emphysema During Tracheostomy Cannula Exchange

Umran Toru, Mehmet Sait Nceb Y K, Zeki Tahsin Yapakc , Aylin Zorlu, Tuncay Vatansever

Abstract :

Tracheostomy is one of the commonly performed surgical procedures in intensive care units (ICUs) and it has numerous complications such as bleeding, airway loss, failure of the successful airway placement, damage to adjacent structures and pneumothorax. Although pneumothorax is a known complication of tracheostomy, bilateral pneumothorax along with subcutaneous emphysema (SE) is quite rare in the literature. Therefore, we described a case of bilateral pneumothorax and massive SE due to traumatic tracheostomy