Affiliations: [a] Department of Anesthesiology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
| [b] Division of Anesthesiology, Sedation and Perioperative Medicine, Children’s National, Washington, DC, USA
Correspondence:
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Address for Correspondence: Claude Abdallah, MD, MSc, Division of Anesthesiology, Children’s National, 111 Michigan Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20010-2970, USA. Tel.: +1 202 476 2025; Fax: +1 204 765 9999; E-mail: cabdalla@cnmc.org.
Abstract: Surfactant catheters are used to administer exogenous surfactant as a preventive and therapeutic measure for surfactant deficiency in premature neonates. We describe the case of a retained surfactant catheter in a 700 g premature neonate with associated pneumothorax.
