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Chest, Vol 100, 268-269, Copyright © 1991 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Overwhelming necrotizing tracheobronchitis due to inadequate humidification during high-frequency jet ventilation

LE Circeo, SO Heard, E Griffiths and G Nash
Departments of Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester.

Necrotizing tracheobronchitis (NT) associated with conventional mechanical ventilation or high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) is a lesion reported most often in neonates. In most cases, a specific cause is not identified. We describe a case of NT in an adult that occurred during HFJV and was attributable to inadequate humidification.




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