Successful endoscopic hemostatic treatment for endotracheal bleeding

Rev Esp Enferm Dig. 2023 Sep 21. doi: 10.17235/reed.2023.9821/2023. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

A 42-year-old male patient experienced hemorrhagic shock after endotracheal intubation. Emergency gastroscopy showed no upper gastrointestinal bleeding, but active tracheal bleeding. After sedation, the tracheal bleeding was successfully stopped with gastroscopy. Post-intubation airway bleeding is a rare but fatal adverse event, and finding the exact bleeding site and quickly stopping the bleeding is the key to successful treatment.