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Pseudomonas cepacia induced septic shock after propofol--a case report
1Department of Anesthesiology and Surgical Critical Care, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica
|September 23, 2000
Abstract:
We report a healthy young female who developed septic shock and multiple organ failure soon after receiving a cosmetic surgery for augmentation of breasts under general anesthesia. Blood cultures yielded the growth of pseudomonas cepacia. We describe the clinical course and investigate the causes of the septic shock. Contamination of propofol, the intravenous anesthetic agent, was suspected.