Tension pneumoperitoneum

✍ Scribed by C. Ralston; T. H. Clutton-Brock; P. Hutton

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 142 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-1238
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00273567

✦ Synopsis

A 26-year-old woman developed the adult respiratory distress syndrome after a post-partum haemorrhage. After mechanical ventilation was started the signs of a tense and distended acute abdomen developed. The aspiration and subsequent analysis of copious intra-peritoneal gas confirmed the diagnosis of a tension pneumoperitoneum secondary to pulmonary barotrauma.