Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Afacan, Mustafa Ahmet, MD
• Colak, Sahin, MD
• Gunes, Harun, MD
• Kandis, Hayati, MD
• Saritas, Ayhan, MD
• Cortuk, Mustafa, MD
• Ozaydin, Ismet, MD

Titel

An unusual complication of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Stomach perforation

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of emergency medicine, 2014-09, Vol.32 (9), p.1149.e1-1149.e3

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Esophagus is less resistant to air passage than epiglottis, and it also has a weaker reflex activity. [...]air prefers the easy way and causes stomach distention by passing through the esophageal sphincter [4]. [...]emergency physicians should remember that stomach perforation due to chest compressions after stomach distention may develop in patients undergoing cardiac arrest, especially in the management of whom difficulties in endotracheal intubation are encountered and/or false esophageal intubation is performed, and a long period of bag-valve mask ventilation is needed.