[A fatal gas embolism during a hysteroscopy-curettage]

Autor: J M, Vo Van, N Q, Nguyen, J Y, Le Bervet
Jazyk: francouzština
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Cahiers d'anesthesiologie. 40(8)
ISSN: 0007-9685
Popis: A 26 year old woman without any pathological history except metrorrhagia underwent a hysteroscopy under epidural anaesthesia and uterine cavity dilatation by saline solution. A respiratory distress and cardoffirculatory arrest occurred at the end of the procedure. Despite several attempts of cardiorespiratory resuscitation the patient deceased. The diagnosis retained was a gas embolism caused by blast effect from reintroduction of the hysteroscope into the uterine cavity. Different mandatory security measures are evoked.
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