Carerj Maria Ludovica, Bucolo Giuseppe M, Mazziotti Silvio, Blandino Alfredo, Booz Christian, Cicero Giuseppe, D'Angelo Tommaso
Section of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Morphological and Functional Imaging, "G. Martino" University Hospital Messina, Messina, Italy.
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, "W. Goethe" University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Heliyon. 2022 Jan;8(1):e08745. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08745. Epub 2022 Jan 10.
Pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum are life-threatening conditions especially in critically ill patients. One of the most common situations in which they occur is prolonged invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation with high end-expiratory pressure. Probably due to the high number of patients with SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection being treated with mechanical ventilation, increasing number of pulmonary barotrauma cases have been reported.
气胸和纵隔气肿是危及生命的病症,尤其在危重症患者中。它们最常见的发生情况之一是在呼气末压力较高的情况下进行长时间有创和无创机械通气。可能由于接受机械通气治疗的新型冠状病毒肺炎(SARS-CoV-2)呼吸道感染患者数量众多,已报告的肺气压伤病例数量不断增加。