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Treatment of venous air embolism with papaverine
J J de Lange1, L H Booij, W L Smelt
1Department of Anesthesiology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
Two cases of venous air embolism are described. One case occurred in a 12-year-old girl operated for ureteroileo-cutaneostomy; the other case occurred in a 44-year-old patient who underwent a hemihepatectomy. The haemodynamic and pulmonary consequences were successfully treated with intravenous papaverine.