Adult respiratory distress syndrome in a child with acute epiglottitis
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 14 (1) , 74-75
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003246-198601000-00020
Abstract
Intubation of a 23-month-old child suffering epiglottitis was complicated by pulmonary edema progressing to the adult respiratory distress syndrome. Increased pulmonary shunt and pulmonary hypertension required high levels of positive end-expiratory pressure and prolonged mechanical ventilation to correct hypoxemia. A possible role for a cuffed endotracheal tube in epiglottitis is discussed.Keywords
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