Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Airway Fire During Left Internal Mammary Dissection in Cardiac Surgery: A Case Report

Airway Fire During Left Internal Mammary Dissection in Cardiac Surgery: A Case Report Previous case reports describing fire during left internal mammary artery dissection involved patients with pulmonary blebs and did not involve the airway. We present a case of an airway fire, diagnosed by the sound of a pop, the appearance of a spark, and the development of an airway circuit leak in a patient with a 4-year-old tracheostomy scar who presented for coronary artery bypass with a left internal mammary artery. The case description is followed by a brief discussion of operating room fires and their management. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png A & A Practice Wolters Kluwer Health

Airway Fire During Left Internal Mammary Dissection in Cardiac Surgery: A Case Report

Download PDF
3 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/airway-fire-during-left-internal-mammary-dissection-in-cardiac-surgery-agBUdJ7kOk
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer Health
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 International Anesthesia Research Society
ISSN
2575-3126
eISSN
2575-3126
DOI
10.1213/XAA.0000000000000825
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Previous case reports describing fire during left internal mammary artery dissection involved patients with pulmonary blebs and did not involve the airway. We present a case of an airway fire, diagnosed by the sound of a pop, the appearance of a spark, and the development of an airway circuit leak in a patient with a 4-year-old tracheostomy scar who presented for coronary artery bypass with a left internal mammary artery. The case description is followed by a brief discussion of operating room fires and their management.

Journal

A & A Practice – Wolters Kluwer Health

Published: Dec 15, 2018

References

  • Sentinel Event Alert, Issue 29: Preventing Surgical Fires.
  • Operating room fires: a closed claims analysis.
    Mehta, SP; Bhananker, SM; Posner, KL; Domino, KB
  • Fire in the operating room during open heart surgery: a case report.
    Moskowitz, M
  • Case 4–2012. Intrathoracic fire during coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
    Hudson, DW; Guidry, OF; Abernathy, JH; Ehrenwerth, J
  • Intrathoracic fire during preparation of the left internal thoracic artery for coronary artery bypass grafting.
    Friedrich, M; Tirilomis, T; Schmitto, JD
  • Airway fire during double-lung transplantation.
    Bansal, A; Bhama, JK; Varga, JM; Toyoda, Y
  • A rare cause of fire in the operating room.
    Ortega, RA
  • Fire during thoracotomy: a need to control the inspired oxygen concentration.
    Katz, JA; Campbell, L
  • Airway fire due to diathermy during tracheostomy in an intensive care patient.
    Rogers, SA; Mills, KG; Tufail, Z
  • Practice advisory for the prevention and management of operating room fires: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Operating Room Fires.
    Apfelbaum, JL; Caplan, RA; Barker, SJ
  • Airway fires during surgery: management and prevention.
    Akhtar, N; Ansar, F; Baig, MS; Abbas, A
  • Fire Safety Video. Resources: Fire Safety Video.
  • Flammability of endotracheal tubes in oxygen and nitrous oxide enriched atmosphere.
    Wolf, GL; Simpson, JI