Extubation failure due to phrenic nerve injury
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Extubation failure due to phrenic nerve injury.
A 26 week gestation infant had an increasingly elevated right hemidiaphragm following drainage of bilateral pleural effusions and failed extubation on numerous occasions. Electric stimulation of the phrenic nerves revealed absent activity on the right, indicating phrenic nerve injury from chest tube drain insertion. Diaphragmatic plication was performed and the infant successfully extubated fou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1359-2998,1468-2052
DOI: 10.1136/fn.88.1.f72