Extubation failure due to phrenic nerve injury. Issue 1 (1st January 2003)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Williams, O; Greenough, A; Mustfa, N; Haugen, S; Rafferty, G R
• Is Part Of: Archives of disease in childhood. Volume 88:Issue 1(2003)
• Page Start: F72
• Page End: F73
• Publication Date: 2003-01-01
• Subjects: extubation -- prematurity -- phrenic nerve; Infants -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Newborn infants -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Fetus -- Diseases -- Periodicals; 618.920105
• DOI: 10.1136/fn.88.1.F72
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1359-2998

Abstract

Abstract : A 26 week gestation infant had an increasingly elevated right hemidiaphragm following drainage of bilateral pleural effusions and failed extubation on numerous occasions. Electric stimulation of the phrenic nerves revealed absent activity on the right, indicating phrenic nerve injury from chest tube drain insertion. Diaphragmatic plication was performed and the infant successfully extubated four days later.