Slip question for all you band experts out there......

So back in October I had the pins out of my ankle from a break a couple of years ago.  After that surgery I complained that everytime I ate it HURT!  A month later I ended up in the ER with extreme pain.  When I made it to the surgeon I had a bad slip.  The surgeon says I must have over eaten, I say I think something happened when I had the ankle surgery.  So could they have intubated me and it leaked and blew up my band, causing a slip???

laurie

I'm not a doctor or a nurse, but it's very doubtful that they intubated into your stomach. 

I know they wouldnt have intubated into my stomach, but could the seal have failed?

I agree with Bette I doubt the surgery had anything to do with it, sometimes they just slip. I don't think most docs know what causes slips. I know people who have been very careful with their eating that had slips, he can't blame it on over eating, I don't think they know why all slips occur.

If you were intubated into your stomach and NOT your lungs you would have coded.

Intubation in the lungs during general is because you cannot breath on your own.  If the tube is in your stomach, you would have coded.  Did you code during surgery?  If you did, then maybe you were intubated in the stomach and not the lungs, if you didn't, then I can tell you with 1000% surety that you were NOT intubated in the stomach. 

Lastly, the endotrachial tube is not long enough to pass into your stomach.  As soon as you're intubated, placement of the tube is check immediately and if you're not in the lungs, the ETT is pulled.  They don't bag oxygen into the stomach until placement is verified.