Oxygen embolus during mechanical ventilation with disappearance of signs after death.
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 57 (3) , 237-239
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.57.3.237
Abstract
O2 embolus is apparently a rare complication of mechanical ventilation in preterm infants. In this boy, there was clinical and radiological evidence of embolization within the heart and great vessels, but at necropsy gas was seen only in the cerebral arteries.Keywords
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