Tracheostomy and Innominate Artery Bleeding: A Late Complication
Bilge Karsli *
Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
Nurten Kayacan
Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
Ulku Karatas Ince
Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
Huseyin Mutlu
Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Tracheostomised patients are at risk of several complications. The complications of tracheostomy include bleeding, stenosis, pneumothorax, tracheo-arterial fistulas and malacia. In article described the case of severe complication of tracheostomy.
We report a patient who suffered life-threatening hemorrhage from an innominate artery laceration following an elective surgical tracheostomy procedure.
Keywords: Tracheostomy, complication, hemorrhage.