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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 37, 262-264, Copyright © 1990 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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Precordial Doppler diagnosis of haemodynamically compromising air embolism during caesarean section

J Fong, F Gadalla and AA Gimbel
Department of Anesthesiology, New York Hospital, NY 10021.

This is a report of a 39-year-old parturient who had a haemodynamically compromising venous air embolism during a repeat Caesarean section under lumbar epidural anaesthesia. The embolism occurred immediately after surgical incision during surgery in the superficial subcutaneous tissues. The diagnosis was made using intraoperative precordial ultrasonic Doppler monitoring which allowed early and successful treatment.




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