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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  The only time I ever saw a human patient with a pneumo in a practice was when a doctor accidentally stuck the upper lobe of the lung doing a cervical trigger-point injection lower down in the upper back. It was pretty bad to see. I know it can happen spontaneously but when it happens during liver-shunt surgery, it is likely from a nick. I hope you get some expert help.
Did the surgeon tell you what caused the death and/or the pneumo himself? Did he/she own it? |
It can also happen from excessive air pressure during mechanical ventilation (maybe this was done during surgery to keep the puppy breathing?):
"Medical procedures, such as the insertion of a
central venous catheter into one of the chest veins or the taking of
biopsy samples from lung tissue, may lead to pneumothorax. The administration of
positive pressure ventilation, either
mechanical ventilation or
non-invasive ventilation, can result in
barotrauma (pressure-related injury) leading to a pneumothorax." (from Wikipedia article on pneumothorax)