Clinical Case Reports (May 2023)

Transfusion‐related acute lung injury under general anesthesia successfully treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: A case report

  • Yusuke Ishida,
  • Koichi Nakazawa,
  • Toshio Itabashi,
  • Mikiko Tomino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7386
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 5
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract Transfusion‐related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a serious complication of blood transfusion and can also develop severe hypoxemia. In TRALI cases with difficult blood oxygenation on mechanical ventilation support, temporary veno‐venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support appears to maintain oxygen levels.

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