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Intraoperative air embolism with pulse irrigation device
J L Buxbaum1, S Muravchick, L Chen
1Department of Anesthesia, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia 19104-4283, USA.
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
Venous air embolism is a potentially fatal complication. In a patient undergoing extensive debridement of an open perineal wound, hemodynamically significant air embolization occurred during use of a pulsatile saline irrigation device. We describe another intraoperative setting in which venous air embolism is a risk.