Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association
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To determine if high-frequency oscillatory ventilation and neuromuscular blockade improve oxygenation and chest radiographic appearance more effectively than high-frequency oscillation alone for surfactant protein-B (SP-B)--deficient infants. ⋯ High-frequency ventilation with neuromuscular blockade optimizes oxygenation for SP-B--deficient infants. This ventilatory strategy should be considered while awaiting the diagnosis of SP-B deficiency or lung transplantation.
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Many complications of central venous catheters, which include perforation of the vessel walls and extravasation of the infusate into pericardial, pleural, and peritoneal cavities, have been reported. We report an infant with a central venous catheter in inferior vena cava who experienced extravasation of parenteral alimentation fluid into the right renal pelvis secondary to perforation of the renal vein. To our knowledge, this rare complication has not been reported earlier.