Use of ECMO for resection of post-traumatic ruptured lung abscess with empyema.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We report a patient who sustained multiple injuries from a motorcycle collision. He had a protracted intensive care course complicated by ventilator-associated pneumonia and empyema resulting from a ruptured lung abscess. He successfully underwent a thoracotomy, lung resection, decortication, and pleurectomy on veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Medical subject headings
- Empyema, Pleural
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Klebsiella Infections
- Lung Abscess
- Lung Injury
- Pneumonectomy
- Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated