Management of bronchopleural fistula with a variable-resistance valve and a single ventilator

P Carvalho; W H Thompson; R Riggs; C Carvalho; N B Charan

doi:10.1378/chest.111.5.1452

Management of bronchopleural fistula with a variable-resistance valve and a single ventilator

Chest. 1997 May;111(5):1452-4. doi: 10.1378/chest.111.5.1452.

Authors

P Carvalho¹, W H Thompson, R Riggs, C Carvalho, N B Charan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boise, Idaho 83702, USA.

PMID: 9149613
DOI: 10.1378/chest.111.5.1452

Abstract

Independent lung ventilation with two ventilators is sometimes used in the management of bronchopleural fistula (BPF). We describe a patient in whom gas flow through a large BPF was initially reduced, and subsequently eliminated, during differential lung ventilation using a single ventilator and a variable-resistance valve attached to one lumen of a bifurcated endotracheal tube.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Bronchial Fistula / therapy*
Equipment Design
Fistula / therapy*
Humans
Intubation, Intratracheal / instrumentation
Lung Diseases, Obstructive / surgery
Male
Middle Aged
Pleural Diseases / therapy*
Pneumonectomy / adverse effects
Pneumothorax / surgery
Positive-Pressure Respiration / methods
Pressure
Respiration, Artificial / methods*
Rheology
Tidal Volume
Ventilators, Mechanical*