Pulmonary venous air embolism following accidental patient laceration of a hemodialysis catheter

I Y Tien; M J Drescher

doi:10.1016/s0736-4679(99)00094-3

Pulmonary venous air embolism following accidental patient laceration of a hemodialysis catheter

J Emerg Med. 1999 Sep-Oct;17(5):847-50. doi: 10.1016/s0736-4679(99)00094-3.

Authors

I Y Tien¹, M J Drescher

Affiliation

¹ Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, USA.

PMID: 10499701
DOI: 10.1016/s0736-4679(99)00094-3

Abstract

As the number of patients at home with indwelling central venous catheters increases, more complications from their use will present to the emergency department. We report a case of pulmonary venous air embolism after a patient inadvertently severed the distal few centimeters of an indwelling central venous catheter.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Accidents, Home*
Adult
Catheterization, Central Venous / instrumentation*
Catheters, Indwelling / adverse effects*
Embolism, Air / etiology*
Embolism, Air / therapy
Emergencies
Hemodialysis, Home / instrumentation*
Humans
Male
Pulmonary Embolism / etiology*
Pulmonary Embolism / therapy