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Case 8: 10.10.2008

History :
2 month old with breathing difficulties

Answers

A procedure has been performed and a complication has followed?

What procedure?
What complication?

An endotracheal tube has been inserted

The left lung has collapsed because the tube is in too far - it lies in the right main bronchus and needs to be pulled back in to the trachea.





 
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