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Head-down tilt position successfully prevent severe brain air embolism

Air embolisms are rare life-threatening complications that develop under various conditions, including surgery. During segmentectomy for thoracic surgery, air is blown into the selected bronchus for segment margin detection. This may result in the formation of an air embolus. Herein, we report a cas...

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Autores principales: Yamaguchi, Gaku, Miura, Hiroyuki, Nakajima, Eiji, Ikeda, Norihiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6204625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30386600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X18809265