Cardiac arrest associated with use of an argon beam coagulator during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 644-646

  Kono, M ^a   Yahagi, N ^b   Kitahara, M ^a   Fujiwara, Y ^a   Sha, M ^a   Ohmura, A ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complications, pulmonary gas embolism; Equipment, argon beam coagulator; Surgery, Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ARGON; ATROPINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; MEPIVACAINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; VECURONIUM;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; AGED; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; GAS EMBOLISM; GAS FLOW; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; LUNG AUSCULTATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 0034795359     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/87.4.644     Document Type: Article

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