Pulsed saline lavage causing venous air embolism in a patient with Paget's disease.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Pulsed saline lavage is used to prepare bony surfaces during joint replacement surgery. A patient is described in whom a venous air embolism occurred as a result of a combination of the increased vascularity of bone seen in Paget's disease and possible air entrainment in the lavage equipment.
Medical subject headings
- Embolism, Air
- Hip Prosthesis
- Intraoperative Complications
- Osteitis Deformans
- Sodium Chloride
- Therapeutic Irrigation