TY - JOUR
T1 - Gastric rupture
T2 - An esophageal obturator airway complication
AU - Crippen, David
AU - Olvey, Stephen
AU - Graffis, Richard
PY - 1981/7
Y1 - 1981/7
N2 - The esophageal obturator airway (EOA®) is in common use throughout the country. This report outlines an unexpected and serious complication: gastric rupture due to overinsufflation. A survey of the literature revealed that most of the known complications involve direct trauma to the esophagus or trachea. In our case, the patient's stomach was ruptured due to vigorous manual ventilation where air was forced into the stomach under pressure, rather than into the lungs, due to failure of the air pressure cuff utilized in the EOA®.
AB - The esophageal obturator airway (EOA®) is in common use throughout the country. This report outlines an unexpected and serious complication: gastric rupture due to overinsufflation. A survey of the literature revealed that most of the known complications involve direct trauma to the esophagus or trachea. In our case, the patient's stomach was ruptured due to vigorous manual ventilation where air was forced into the stomach under pressure, rather than into the lungs, due to failure of the air pressure cuff utilized in the EOA®.
KW - airway, esophageal obturator, complication
KW - esophageal obturator airway, complication
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U2 - 10.1016/S0196-0644(81)80240-5
DO - 10.1016/S0196-0644(81)80240-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 7247090
AN - SCOPUS:0019719957
VL - 10
SP - 370
EP - 373
JO - Annals of Emergency Medicine
JF - Annals of Emergency Medicine
SN - 0196-0644
IS - 7
ER -