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Thoracic cavity irrigation: an unusual cause of acute ST segment increase
Michael J Brown1, Daniel R Brown
1Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Medical School, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. brown.michael3@mayo.edu
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|August 29, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
We describe an unusual case of acute ST segment increase secondary to warm saline thoracic cavity irrigation during thoracotomy. Temperature-mediated alteration of myocyte repolarization should be considered in addition to myocardial ischemia when ST segment changes occur.