PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ariel Daube
AU  - Mohamed Gaffoor
AU  - Zhanna Georgievskaya
AU  - Jeffrey R. Avner
TI  - Bilateral Pneumothoraces in a 3-Month-Old Infant During an Apnea Test in the Diagnosis of Brain Death
AID  - 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000001052
DP  - 2021 Oct 01
TA  - Neurology: Clinical Practice
PG  - e794--e795
VI  - 11
IP  - 5
4099  - http://cp.neurology.org/content/11/5/e794.short
4100  - http://cp.neurology.org/content/11/5/e794.full
AB  - We present the case of a 3-month-old boy who suffered bilateral pneumothoraces secondary to insufflation of oxygen into the endotracheal tube during the apnea test as part of brain death testing. Although rare, awareness of this potential complication of the apnea test is of particular importance in pediatric patients who have narrow endotracheal tubes because resistance to expiratory flow increases exponentially as lumen diameter decreases.