Clinical Study British journal of anaesthesia 2002

Air embolism: diagnosis with single-photon emission tomography and successful hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Droghetti L, Giganti M, Memmo A, Zatelli R — British journal of anaesthesia, 2002

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Summary

What Researchers Did

Researchers presented a case report detailing a patient who developed venous air embolism following percutaneous nephrolithotripsy.

What They Found

The patient presented with blindness and neurological deficits 8 hours after the procedure due to paradoxical air embolism.

Early single-photon emission tomography (SPET) confirmed the diagnosis, whereas magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was diagnostic only 30 hours later.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy was successfully administered, leading to a positive outcome.

Canadian Relevance

This study has no direct Canadian connection as it is a single case report from outside Canada.

Study Limitations

The primary limitation of this study is its nature as a single case report, which restricts the generalizability of its findings to a broader patient population.

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Study Details

Study Type	Clinical Study
Category	Neurological
Source	Pubmed
PubMed ID	12393781
Year Published	2002
Journal	British journal of anaesthesia
MeSH Terms	Adult; Brain; Embolism, Air; Humans; Hyperbaric Oxygenation; Intraoperative Care; Intraoperative Complications; Lithotripsy; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Nephrostomy, Percutaneous; Radiography; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon

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