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Echocardiographic detection of systemic air embolism during positive pressure ventilation
  1. P Avanzas,
  2. M A García-Fernández,
  3. J Quiles
  1. magfeco@seker.es

https://doi.org/10.1136/heart.89.11.1321

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    A healthy 50 year old woman was admitted to hospital with abdominal pain. Abdominal x ray revealed pneumoperitoneum and she was taken to the operating room with suspected perforation of the viscera. The duodenum was operated on because of the perforation with accompanying peritonitis, and the patient required dopamine for blood pressure …

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