Systemic arterial air embolism after percutaneous lung biopsy

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 589-596

  Hare, S S ^a   Gupta, A ^a   Goncalves, A T C ^a   Souza, C A ^a   Matzinger, F ^a   Seely, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AIR EMBOLISM; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AUDITORY TUBE DYSFUNCTION; BRONCHOVENOUS FISTULA; BRONCHUS FISTULA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLAUSTROPHOBIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORE BIOPSY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DYSPHASIA; DYSPNEA; ECG ABNORMALITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FACE MUSCLE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INFUSION PUMP; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEEDLE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PACEMAKER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VENOUS AIR EMBOLISM; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SHOCK; STROKE; SYSTEMIC ARTERIAL AIR EMBOLISM; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ASPIRATION; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VEIN INJURY; VENOUS PRESSURE; VITAL SIGN; WHEEZING;

ARTERIES; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; LUNG; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79957704515     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2011.03.005     Document Type: Review

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