Rupture of the Normal Stomach after Therapeutic Oxygen Administration

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Abstract
RUPTURE of the healthy stomach, unassociated with trauma, may occur from overdistention created by food or gas.1 2 3 4 5 6 This type of rupture is rare and seldom diagnosed and exacts a high mortality.Little attention, however, has been paid to the therapeutic use of oxygen as an inciting cause of such rupture. Pendergrass and Booth7 mentioned the intratracheal use of oxygen as a possible contributing factor. Musser8 considered the administration of oxygen to be a common cause of rupture in infants. McCormick,9 however, found less than a third of the patients in the reported pediatric cases receiving oxygen by any method. A . . .