Postoperative Pulmonary Edema Scondary to Laryngospasm. |
Byung Hoon Shin, Ik Dong Kim, Tae In Park, Yung Il Jo, Yong Woo Lee |
1Department of Anesthesiology, Inje Medical College, Paik Hospital, Pusan, Korea. 2Department of Anesthesiology, Kwanghee Hosptial, Pusan, Korea. |
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Abstract |
Acute pulmonary edema associated with intense laryngospasm during or after anesthesia seems to be a rare complication.
Although emergency reestablishment of the airway may avert fatal hypoxia, subsequent morbidity may follow from the delayed effects of the obstruction. We recently observed a 16-year-old, 5kg boy, with inguinal hernia who developed laryngospasm and pulmonary edema following a herniorrhaphy and he had no evidence of cardiac enlargement or cardiovascular disease. |
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