Thoracic complications of dental surgical procedures: Hazards of the dental drill
| Autor: | Thomas E. Stump, E. Wesley Ely, Edward F. Haponik, Allen S. Hudspeth |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Dental Instruments medicine.medical_specialty Fatal outcome Adolescent Fatal Outcome Thoracic Diseases Risk Factors medicine Humans Pneumomediastinum Abstract case Drill business.industry Dental drill General Medicine Middle Aged Surgical procedures medicine.disease Mediastinitis Root Canal Therapy Surgery Tooth Extraction Female business Complication |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Medicine. 95:456-465 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9343 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0002-9343(93)90327-l |
| Popis: | case reports: Dental surgical procedures occasionally result in intrathoracic complications that may subsequently be encountered by clinicians. We report four patients with such complications, including pneumomediastinum, fatal descending necrotizing mediastinitis, and Lemierre's syndrome. In each of these patients, the commonly used dental handpiece with exhausted air directed to the working drill point was an important, but unrecognized, predisposition to their intrathoracic complication. conclusion: Clinicians should be aware of the spectrum of these problems and, in particular, of the potential hazards of pressurized nonsterile air blown into open surgical sites by the dental drill. |
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