SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF MASSIVE AIR EMBOLISM PRODUCING CARDIAC ARREST
| Autor: | John O'Banion, Tom Shires |
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| Rok vydání: | 1958 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Embolism Physical examination medicine.disease Palpation Air embolism Normal limit Medical Records Heart Arrest Surgery Blood pressure medicine.anatomical_structure Anesthesia medicine Embolism Air Humans Abdomen Gunshot wound business Left greater trochanter |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Medical Association. 167:1483 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9955 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/jama.1958.72990290001009 |
| Popis: | Massive air embolism is a relatively rare catastrophe but often a lethal one. The occurrence of air embolism, massive enough to produce cardiac arrest, with a successful outcome seems to warrant reporting. Report of a Case A man aged 49 years was admitted to the hospital on April 27, 1957, shortly after receiving a gunshot wound from a.38-caliber pistol, the bullet having entered the left hip just superior to the left greater trochanter and having apparently coursed in a medial direction. On admission the patient was extremely apprehensive, intoxicated, and in severe hypotension, the blood pressure being 40/0 mm. Hg. The clinical examination revealed signs of peripheral vascular collapse, but physical examination otherwise was within normal limits. Palpation of the abdomen revealed it to be soft and nontender; bowel sounds were present. Therapy with intravenously given lactated Ringer's solution was begun, and x-rays of the left thigh and abdomen were |
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