Diagnosis and Treatment of Vascular Air Embolism

REVIEW ARTICLE David C. Warltier, M. D. , Ph. D. , Editor Anesthesiology 2007; 106:164–77 Copyright © 2006, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. Diagnosis and Treatment of Vascular Air Embolism Marek A.... More

REVIEW ARTICLE
David C.
Warltier, M.
D.
, Ph.
D.
, Editor
Anesthesiology 2007; 106:164–77 Copyright © 2006, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Vascular Air Embolism
Marek A.
Mirski, M.
D.
, Ph.
D.
,* Abhijit Vijay Lele, M.
D.
,† Lunei Fitzsimmons, M.
D.
,† Thomas J.
K.
Toung, M.
D.
‡
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Vascular air embolism is a potentially life-threatening event
that is now encountered routinely in the operating room and
other patient care areas.
The circumstances under which physicians and nurses may encounter air embolism are no longer
limited to neurosurgical procedures conducted in the “sitting
position” and occur in such diverse areas as the interventi Less