Difficult Management of a Double-Lumen Endotracheal Tube and Difficult Ventilation during Robotic Thymectomy with Carbon Dioxide Insufflation

Robotic surgery with carbon dioxide (CO2) insufflation to the thorax is frequently performed to gain a better operative field of view, although its intraoperative complications have not yet been discussed in detail. We treated two patients with difficult ventilation caused by distal migration of a d...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yuki Sugiyama, Kunihiro Mitsuzawa, Yuki Yoshiyama, Fumiko Shimizu, Satoshi Fuseya, Takashi Ichino, Hiroyuki Agatsuma, Takayuki Shiina, Ken-ichi Ito, Mikito Kawamata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Surgery
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3403045