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7801396

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
49
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-1-26
pubmed:abstractText
A total of 379 patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for mechanical ventilation were prospectively investigated for lesions of the nose, nasal cavity, ears and larynx during and after nasotracheal intubation. One to two years later, the surviving patients were questioned to investigate late persisting sequelae. During intubation and up to five days following extubation, inflammatory changes and ulceration of the nostrils or nasal septum were found in respectively 76 (20%) and 110 (29%) patients. There were bleedings from the nasal cavity in 67 (19%) and fractures of the conchae in 40 patients (11%). Hoarseness was noted in 135 patients (42%). Inflammatory changes and ulcerations of the nostril and nasal septum were correlated to the duration of intubation. Among the 281 patients included in the follow-up study, 100 (35%) had symptoms from the nose and nasal cavity. Sixty-five (24%) had symptoms related to the ears, 56 (20%) to the maxillary sinus, 81 (29%) to the voice and 90 (32%) to the throat. Increasing duration of intubation was found to be correlated to persisting symptoms from the larynx. Former ulcerations of the nose were associated with a tendency toward nasal bleeding. To avoid as many complications as possible from the nose and nasal cavity, we recommend orotracheal intubation. As late sequelae from the larynx increase with the duration of intubation, perhaps tracheostomy should be performed earlier than is general practice today, but that has to be proven in forthcoming studies.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
dan
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0041-5782
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
156
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7353-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
[Complications and late sequelae after nasotracheal intubation].
pubmed:affiliation
Arhus Kommunehospital, anaestesiologisk afdeling.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract