[NPPE - a rare anaesthetic complication]

Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2001 Dec;36(12):759-62. doi: 10.1055/s-2001-18984.
[Article in German]

Abstract

We report a rare anaesthetic complication: NPPE (negative pressure pulmonary edema). A 20-year-old otherwise healthy man developed pulmonary edema in the early postoperative phase after uneventful general anaesthesia. The release of the edema was acute obstruction of the upper airways due to postoperative drowsiness.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Airway Obstruction / diagnostic imaging
  • Airway Obstruction / etiology
  • Airway Obstruction / therapy
  • Anesthesia / adverse effects*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Postoperative Complications / chemically induced*
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnostic imaging
  • Postoperative Complications / therapy
  • Pulmonary Edema / chemically induced*
  • Pulmonary Edema / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Edema / therapy
  • Radiography