Related Experiment Videos
A lethal pulmonary embolism during percutaneous vertebroplasty
Hsueh-Lin Chen1, Chih-Shung Wong, Shung-Tai Ho
1Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|September 28, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
This case report describes a fatal cardiac arrest during percutaneous vertebroplasty. This serves to remind us that life threatening intraoperative pulmonary embolism may occur in this minimal invasive procedure. Surgical precautions and invasive cardiovascular monitoring may be required in high-risk patients.