Citation

Chang C, Grush A, McClintock DE, Nahid P, Tang JF. J. Clin. Anesth. 2006; 18(8): 628-630.

Affiliation

Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative Care, and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, Box 3C38, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jclinane.2006.05.015

PMID

17175436

Abstract

We present the case of a trauma patient whose persistently abnormal chest radiography led to exploratory bronchoscopy. After the discovery of a foreign body in the right lower lobe bronchus, an attempted retrieval resulted in accidental perforation of a cocaine bag and release of the drug, which may have been the cause of the patient's subsequent pneumonitis.

Language: en