[Central venous catheter as a reason of bleeding after tracheotomy]

Otolaryngol Pol. 2006;60(4):593-7.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

Tracheotomy as an operation may be connected with many complications. One of them is intra- or postoperative bleeding. A lot of reasons of such bleeding is well known, but we describe a case of bleeding caused by central venous catheter which was inserted into external jugular vein, but dislocated into anterior jugular vein and destructed it's wall. The bleeding observed after tracheotomy was firstly counted as an effect of coagulation defect connected with heparin supply. When few days after tracheotomy the tip of the catheter was seen in the tracheotomy, patient was quickly operated--the destructed anterior jugular vein and external jugular vein were ligated and the central venous catheter was removed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Catheterization, Central Venous / adverse effects*
  • Catheterization, Central Venous / instrumentation*
  • Equipment Failure
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Jugular Veins / injuries*
  • Jugular Veins / surgery*
  • Middle Aged
  • Postoperative Hemorrhage / etiology*
  • Tracheotomy / adverse effects*
  • Tracheotomy / instrumentation
  • Tracheotomy / methods