Bubbles in the brain: What to do for arterial gas embolism?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 909-910

  Moon, Richard E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial gas embolism; Hyperbaric oxygen

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCARBON; LIDOCAINE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BAROTRAUMA; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERBARISM; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INJURY; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17044379084     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000159726.47336.F8     Document Type: Editorial

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