• Radiology · Oct 1976

    Ventilator-related extra-alveolar air in adults.

    • B M Rohlfing, W R Webb, and R M Schlobohm.
    • Radiology. 1976 Oct 1; 121 (1): 25-31.

    AbstractExtra-alveolar air (EAA) developed in 38 patients during mechanical ventilation. High ventilatory pressures and destructive lung disease predispose to EAA. Pneumoretroperitoneum and pneumoperitoneum are more common forms of ventilator-induced EAA in adults than generally realized; an associated pneumomediastinum was always identified when one of the two disorders above resulted from ventilation. Retroperitoneal air was located laterally along the liver and in the flanks, and changed little with change in patient position. Early detection of EAA may allow life-saving changes in therapy to be implemented.

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