Over-Inflating a Tracheostomy Tube Cuff for Tracheo-Innominate Artery Fistula

Yi-Chia Hsieh; Wen-Ruei Tang; Ying-Yuan Chen

doi:10.3390/diagnostics14020223

Over-Inflating a Tracheostomy Tube Cuff for Tracheo-Innominate Artery Fistula

Diagnostics (Basel). 2024 Jan 20;14(2):223. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics14020223.

Authors

Yi-Chia Hsieh¹, Wen-Ruei Tang², Ying-Yuan Chen²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 704302, Taiwan.
² Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 704302, Taiwan.

Abstract

We report an angiographic image of a 58-year-old woman with profuse bleeding from a tracheo-innominate artery fistula. It may not have been possible to obtain this valuable image if adequate initial resuscitation and an over-inflated tracheostomy tube cuff had not been administered to stop bleeding during an emergency.

Keywords: complication of tracheostomy; computed tomography angiography; tracheo-innominate artery fistula.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.