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Chapter 85 - Part C: Successful Repair, Dead Patient: The Diaphragmatic Trap
In this BoardsCast episode, we confront the deadly paradox at the heart of diaphragmatic hernia surgery: Sometimes the repair is successful… and the patient still dies.
Using Tobias Chapter 85 – Diaphragmatic Hernias as our guide, we break down the physiologic traps that occur after the diaphragm is closed — when shifting organs, changing pressures, and fragile cardiopulmonary dynamics push the patient past their physiologic limits.
You’ll learn:
- Why re-expansion pulmonary edema (REPE) kills patients after “successful” repair
- How rapid organ repositioning destabilizes venous return
- Why chronic hernias are the most dangerous to close
- The induction → ventilation → closure sequence that creates collapse
- When the abdomen simply cannot accept its organs back (“loss of domain”)
- Why some patients arrest after surgery, not during
- The board-relevant reasoning behind staged repair, controlled ventilation, and slow re-expansion
You’ll leave this episode with a deeper understanding of why diaphragmatic hernia surgery is never “routine” — and how to keep the patient alive after you fix the hole.
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