Paradoxical embolization by amniotic fluid seen on the transesophageal echocardiography

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1110-1112

  Vellayappan, Usha ^a   Attias, Miguel D ^a   Shulman, Mark S ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; LIVE BIRTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RESUSCITATION;

ADULT; ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AMNIOTIC FLUID; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART ARREST; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 63849093361     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318195b4e3     Document Type: Article

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