Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child

Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child

Ascaris lumbricoides or roundworm is a nematode causing infestation in about 1.3 billion people worldwide. We report a case of a 7-year-old patient who had head injury. He was admitted to the intensive care unit for mechanical ventilation after craniotomy and evacuation of extradural haemorrhage at...

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Main Authors: Srinovianti, Noerdin, Mat Nor, Mohd Basri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia 2002
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RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/1/airway_obstruction_due_to_ascaris.pdf
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spelling iium-3122017-04-06T08:40:31Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/ Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child Srinovianti, Noerdin Mat Nor, Mohd Basri RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Ascaris lumbricoides or roundworm is a nematode causing infestation in about 1.3 billion people worldwide. We report a case of a 7-year-old patient who had head injury. He was admitted to the intensive care unit for mechanical ventilation after craniotomy and evacuation of extradural haemorrhage at the left temporoparietal area. While weaning off mechanical ventilation two days after admission, he developed an acute airway obstruction. Flexible bronchoscopy revealed a tube like foreign body obstructing the right and left bronchus. Emergency rigid bronchoscopy under general anaesthesia extracted an eight-centimetre long Ascaris lumbricoides. The patient’s ventilation and oxygenation improved drastically and he was discharged home 3 weeks later. Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia 2002 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/1/airway_obstruction_due_to_ascaris.pdf Srinovianti, Noerdin and Mat Nor, Mohd Basri (2002) Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child. International Medical Journal Malaysia, 1 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 1823-4631 http://www.eimjm.com/Vol1-No1/Vol-No1-D1.html
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Srinovianti, Noerdin
Mat Nor, Mohd Basri
Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child
description Ascaris lumbricoides or roundworm is a nematode causing infestation in about 1.3 billion people worldwide. We report a case of a 7-year-old patient who had head injury. He was admitted to the intensive care unit for mechanical ventilation after craniotomy and evacuation of extradural haemorrhage at the left temporoparietal area. While weaning off mechanical ventilation two days after admission, he developed an acute airway obstruction. Flexible bronchoscopy revealed a tube like foreign body obstructing the right and left bronchus. Emergency rigid bronchoscopy under general anaesthesia extracted an eight-centimetre long Ascaris lumbricoides. The patient’s ventilation and oxygenation improved drastically and he was discharged home 3 weeks later.
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author Srinovianti, Noerdin
Mat Nor, Mohd Basri
author_facet Srinovianti, Noerdin
Mat Nor, Mohd Basri
author_sort Srinovianti, Noerdin
title Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child
title_short Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child
title_full Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child
title_fullStr Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child
title_full_unstemmed Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child
title_sort acute airway obstruction due to ascaris lumbricoides in a ventilated child
publisher Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia
publishDate 2002
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/1/airway_obstruction_due_to_ascaris.pdf
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