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- Title
Severe Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Due to Scrub Typhus: Successful Ventilation with Airway Pressure Release Ventilation Mode after Becoming Refractory to Protective Ventilation.
- Authors
Chandelia, Sudha; Jain, Sarika
- Abstract
Scrub typhus can affect lungs from mild illness like pneumonitis to a severe illness like acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Such patients may be very challenging to treat when their hypoxemia becomes severe and refractory to treatment. Main treatment is supportive in terms of mechanical ventilation. In adult ARDS, low tidal volume (TV) ventilation has been recommended, but there is no consensus on most effective ventilation mode in children. We present a case of a 12-year-old girl who developed severe ARDS (PO2/FiO2 ratio - 58), refractory to low TV ventilation. There was a rapid improvement in oxygenation on the application of airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) mode within 1/2 h. She was successfully ventilated and weaned off the ventilator over 5 days. This case highlights the utility of APRV mode of ventilation as a rescue therapy for severe refractory ARDS in children.
- Publication
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2017, Vol 21, Issue 5, p326
- ISSN
0972-5229
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_38_17