Incidence of Bone-Marrow Embolism Due to Closed-Chest Cardiac Massage

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Abstract
PULMONARY bone-marrow embolism as a complication of closed-chest cardiac massage has rarely been reported.1 , 2 This complication, however, has frequently been observed in routine autopsies of patients studied in this laboratory who had received closed-chest cardiac massage before death. A study was therefore undertaken to determine the incidence of pulmonary bone-marrow emboli in routinely autopsied patients on whom closed-chest cardiac massage had been attempted before death.Materials and MethodsFrom August, 1962, to April, 1963, 110 autopsies were performed. Eleven of these patients (Table 1, Cases 1–11) were known to have had closed-chest cardiac massage before death. The routine lung sections . . .

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