Volume : 7, Issue : 1, January - 2018

Venous air embolism during diagnostic hysteroscopy: Case report of a catastrophic event.

Dr Isha Chopra, Dr Sushil Chhabra, Dr Zara Wani

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height:200%"><em><span style="font-size:&#10;14.0pt;line-height:200%;color:#333333;background:white">Vascular air embolism,</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:&#10;200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#333333;background:white">&nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">a subset of gas embolism,<span style="color:red"> </span><span style="color:#333333;&#10;background:white">is the entrainment of air (or exogenously delivered gas) from the operative field or other communication with the environment into the venous or arterial vasculature, producing systemic effects and we hereby present such a case report.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>