Mechanical Ventilation during Bronchiolitis: The Macklin Effect

Abstract

This is a case of barotrauma imaging (Macklin effect) after invasive mechanical ventilation in a 14-week-old newborn with complicated bronchiolitis. Teaching point: Imaging could help us improve defining the anatomical boundaries of the Macklin effect, an incompletely known anatomo-physiological entity.

Keywords: Barotrauma; Bronchiolitis; Macklin effect; Mechanical ventilation.