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Cerebral air embolism complicating cardiac ablation procedures
D A Hinkle1, D M Raizen, M L McGarvey
1Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
Neurology
|March 29, 2001
Abstract:
Two patients with similar courses of neurologic impairment and subsequent recovery after cerebral air embolism complicating cardiac ablation procedures are described. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, combined with aggressive resuscitative efforts, appears to have contributed to each patient's recovery.