Citation

Conetta R, Nierman DM. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1992; 21(1): 100-102.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/s0196-0644(05)82251-6

PMID

1539877

Abstract

A 75-year-old woman with a previous repair of a cribiform plate fracture was nasotracheally intubated following a suicide attempt. Twenty-one days later she was readmitted to the hospital with a massive pneumocephalus, followed by a terminal intracranial hemorrhage. Nasotracheal intubation as a contributing factor in the development of pneumocephalus is previously unreported.

Language: en

Keywords

Aged; Cerebral Hemorrhage; Drug Overdose; Female; Humans; Intubation, Intratracheal; Nose; Pneumocephalus; Poisoning; Suicide, Attempted; Temazepam; Tomography, X-Ray Computed