Successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support

We report a patient who sustained catastrophic pulmonary fat embolism, during open reduction, internal fixation (ORIF) of fracture femur' In our opinion, the use of percutaneous cardiopulmonary support with (PCPS), saved the patient from certain death.

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Autores principales: Sarkar, Suman, Mandal, Krutisundar, Bhattacharya, Prithwis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19742250
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.43684
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spelling pubmed-27383092009-09-08 Successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support Sarkar, Suman Mandal, Krutisundar Bhattacharya, Prithwis Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report We report a patient who sustained catastrophic pulmonary fat embolism, during open reduction, internal fixation (ORIF) of fracture femur' In our opinion, the use of percutaneous cardiopulmonary support with (PCPS), saved the patient from certain death. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2738309/ /pubmed/19742250 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.43684 Text en © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support
title Successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support
title_full Successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support
title_fullStr Successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support
title_full_unstemmed Successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support
title_short Successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support
title_sort successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738309/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.43684
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