Use of Sengstaken-Blakemore tube in a different indication: A case report.

Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg

Department of General Surgery, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Intensive Care Science, Edirne-Türkiye.

Published: July 2022

AI Article Synopsis

  • * A rare case involved a laceration of the posterior tracheal membrane, causing a passage that trapped air in the gastrointestinal tract and allowed reflux into the tracheobronchial tree.
  • * Traditional treatments were ineffective, and immediate surgery wasn’t possible due to the patient's unstable condition, but using a Sengstaken-Blackmore tube successfully managed the situation.

Article Abstract

Tracheostomy has become a common procedure in today's intensive care units. On the other hand, tracheostomy has some life-threat-ening complications. In here, we presented that an interesting case of a tracheaesophageal fistula, rare complication of surgical trache-ostomy, caused by posterior tracheal membrane laceration than has progressed to form a single passage. This passage progressively led both air trapping in gastrointestinal tract due to required mechanical ventilatory support and reflux of gastrointestinal content into tracheobronchial tree. Conventional measures were not beneficial, nor immediate surgical repair was feasible due to unstable condition of the patient. Then, a Sengstaken-Blackmore tube was introduced and overwhelmed the condition.

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