Massive Intraoperative Pulmonary Thromboembolism - A case report .
10.4097/kjae.1989.22.5.766
- Author:
Hyun Hee YUN
1
;
Tae Ho CHUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology, National Police Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Pulmonary infarction;
Anesthesia;
Maxillary plate wire fixation
- MeSH:
Adult;
Anesthesia;
Anesthesia, General;
Autopsy;
Diagnosis;
Hip;
Humans;
Infarction;
Jurisprudence;
Knee;
Male;
Orthopedics;
Postoperative Period;
Pulmonary Embolism*;
Pulmonary Infarction
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
1989;22(5):766-769
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Pulmonary thromboembolism is more common in medical than in surgical wards. However, it can occur in the postoperative period especially in those undergone orthopedic surgery of the hip or knee. We had an opportunity to give witness in a law court the relation between the pulmonary infarction and general anesthesia, which case had been occurred in a local clinic. A case of pulmonary thromboembolism with infarction m a 28 year-old male is presented which developed at the near of surgery and died 1 hour after surgery of the maxillary open reduction with a plate-wire fixation. Anesthesia was performed under the general nasotracheal with Halo-O2. No case has been yet reported. Diagnosis was made by autopsy.
