tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Brachial plexopathy after prone positioning"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về y học đề tài: Brachial plexopathy after prone positioning. | Critical Care December 2002 Vol 6 No 6 Goettler et al. Research Brachial plexopathy after prone positioning Claudia E Goettler1 John P Pryor2 and Patrick M Reilly3 Open Access Assistant Professor of Surgery Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University Gennville North Carolina USA 2Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA 3Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA Correspondence John P Pryor pryorj@ Received 28 August 2002 Accepted 28 August 2002 Published 17 September 2002 Critical Care 2002 6 540-542 DOI cc1823 This article is online at http content 6 6 540 2002 Goettler et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X . This article is published in Open Access verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any non-commercial purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Two cases of brachial plexus injury after prone position in the intensive care unit are described. Mechanisms of brachial plexus injury are described as are methods for prevention of this unusual complication. Keywords adult respiratory distress syndrome brachial plexopathy prone position Introduction Prone positioning has become increasing popular as an adjunct for the treatment of hypoxia in adult respiratory distress syndrome ARDS . Our group previously reported on the safety of prone positioning with open abdomen 1 and with high flow venous access 2 . Common complications due to prone positioning such as pressure necrosis are widely recognized. We now report two cases of brachial plexopathy after prone positioning in the intensive care unit ICU . Case reports Case 1 A .