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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-3-16
pubmed:abstractText
This case report deals with a patient who was being operated on for a tumor of the colon and who died from a paradoxical venous air embolism. Accompanying massive blood loss impedes differentiation of hemodynamic disturbances either due to venous air embolism or to hemorrhage, respectively. Air was aspirated from the radial artery catheter that was used for blood-pressure monitoring and for taking blood samples for laboratory analysis. At autopsy, no probe-patent foramen ovale could be demonstrated. The mechanism of air passing from the venous to the systemic circulation in our patient remains speculative; however, mechanical cardiopulmonary reanimation itself with its underlying thoracic pump mechanism has to be considered as contributing to the transport of air from the venous to the arterial side of the circulation.
pubmed:language
ger
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0003-2417
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
44-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
[A paradoxical air embolism in a closed foramen ovale].
pubmed:affiliation
Abteilung für Anaesthesiologie, Intensiv- und Transfusionsmedizin, Endo-Klinik, Hamburg.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports