| Cardiac Arrest Occurred by Tension Pneumothorax during Right Thoracotomy: A case report. |
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Seung Moon Ryu, Hyo Seok Na, Jin Ho Bae, Jong Myeon Hong, Seung Woon Lim |
1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea. swlim@chungbuk.ac.kr
2Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea. |
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| Abstract |
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Tension pneumothorax during one-lung ventilation is an insidious, life threatening emergency. Even though early diagnosis and rapid intervention are necessary to prevent mortality, treatment may be difficult because of the clinical diagnosis-mediastinal shift, hypoxemia, hypotension and increased airway pressure may be confusing in the operative setting. We present here the case of a patient who underwent right thoracotomy with one-lung ventilation and the patient developed left tension pneumothorax with resulting cardiac arrest. |
| Key Words:
cardiac arrest; one-lung ventilation; tension pneumothorax |
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