Iatrogenic systemic air embolism treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 566-568

  Jorgensen T B ^a   Sorensen A M ^a   Jansen, E C ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Air embolism; HBO therapy; Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; INOTROPIC AGENT; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; METOPROLOL; PROPOFOL; SIMVASTATIN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; HYSTEROSCOPY; ISCHEMIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN EMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRUM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; IATROGENIC DISEASE; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RARE DISEASES; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40849116472     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2008.01598.x     Document Type: Article

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