Nasal trauma due to nasal continuous positive airway pressure in newborns
- Harold Wood Hospital, Gubbins lane, Romford, Essex RM7 OBE, UK; jeewanr@hotmail.com
We would like to report a preterm baby, who sustained a major nasal injury secondary to nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP). The baby was extremely low birth weight and needed CPAP for 3 weeks. The baby developed laceration of the alae nasi within a week (fig 1). The laceration was …









