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Delayed Hypoxia During Pediatric Posterior Spinal Fusion Secondary to Intraoperative...
Michelle Rovner
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May 06, 2020
Posterior spinal surgery has the risk of perioperative respiratory complications. We describe the delayed diagnosis of an intraoperative pneumothorax in a teenage girl with idiopathic scoliosis scheduled for thoracolumbar posterior fusion. After an uneventful surgery, the oxygen saturation abruptly decreased to 65%. A chest x-ray showed a moderate pneumothorax.