Pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) following severe traumatic brain injury

Abstract

Primary objective: To report a case of pneumatosis intestinalis complicated with sorbitol containing medicines.

Research design: Case report.

Methods and procedures: Clinical course and literature review.

Experimental interventions: Chart review.

Main outcomes and results: Large amount of sorbital may cause a reversible gastrointestinal complication, pneumatosis intestinalis.

Conclusions: In the assessment of enteral abnormalities, all components of medications, active and ‘inactive’, must be evaluated as possible aetiological factors of pneumatosis intestinalis.

• Pneumatosis intestinalis
• traumatic brain injury
• sorbitol