Aspiration and Postoperative Respiratory Failure
Author: Kapil Rajwani And Edward J. Schenck And David A. Berlin
Case-Study
A 62-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with a small bowel obstruction. She is vomiting and hypotensive and appears to aspirate. She is emergently intubated, fluid resuscitated, and brought to the operating room for emergency laparotomy.