CARDIOVASCULAR COLLAPSE AFTER RAPID VENTRICULAR DECOMPRESSION IN HYDROCEPHALUS

Open Access

1 August 1967

journal article
case report
Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia

Vol. 39 (8) , 657-658
https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/39.8.657

Abstract

Cardiovascular collapse occurred in a six-month-old male child with hydrocephalus when rapid ventricular decompression was carried out during a ventriculo-pleural shunt operation. Rapid injection of 40 ml of saline restored the heart beat and spontaneous respiration.

Keywords

CHILD
CARDIOVASCULAR
DECOMPRESSION
COLLAPSE
SHUNT
BEAT
OLD
RAPID VENTRICULAR

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