Transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of carbon dioxide embolism during minimally invasive saphenous vein harvesting and treatment with inhaled epoprostenol

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 962-964

  Martineau, André ^a   Arcand, Geneviève ^a   Couture, Pierre ^a   Babin, Denis ^a   Perreault, Louis P ^a   Denault, André ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMLODIPINE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NITRATE; NORADRENALIN; PANCURONIUM; PRAVASTATIN; PROSTACYCLIN; SALBUTAMOL; SUFENTANIL;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAPNOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMBOLISM; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEBULIZER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0037377895     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000048827.03602.3F     Document Type: Article

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