ArticleMedical journal, Armed Forces India
Track your trach: Removal of a fractured tracheostomy tube using a flexible fibreoptic bronchoscope in a patient with severe head injury.
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- Fractured tracheostomy tube as a foreign body in a pediatric patient: a case report and review of literature.Journal of surgical case reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Tracheostomy is a common airway procedure for life support in critically ill patients with head injuries. This procedure is safe but also associated with early and late complications. Tube fracture and dislodgement into the tracheobronchial tree leading to airway obstruction is a rare but life-threatening complication after prolonged tracheostomy tube placement. There are very few published reports of tracheostomy tube fracture and dislodgement into tracheobronchial tree in a neurologically injured patient. We report a case of a fractured tracheostomy tube which got impacted in the left main bronchus, in a 41-year-old male patient who had been on prolonged tracheostomy tube after craniotomy and evacuation of subdural hematoma. The distal part of the tracheostomy tube fractured and impacted in the left main bronchus. Fibreoptic bronchoscopy was performed through the oral cavity to extract it, and the anaesthetic management during the period is discussed.
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