Paradoxical Embolus after Multiple Trauma Resulting in a Cerebrovascular Accident

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1121-1123

  Price, Mark D ^a   Kanake, Pranay ^a   Talmor, Daniel ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FAT EMBOLISM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 1642461564     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000102069.59203.A4     Document Type: Article

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