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Carbon dioxide embolism during laser endometrial ablation
1Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK.
Anaesthesia
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
A patient undergoing endometrial ablation with an Nd-YAG laser, a carbon-dioxide-cooled coaxial fibre and an exposed fibre tip suffered a carbon dioxide embolism resulting in cardiac arrest. A full recovery was made with no neurological deficit.