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. 1982 Mar;57(3):237–239. doi: 10.1136/adc.57.3.237

Oxygen embolus during mechanical ventilation with disappearance of signs after death.

P T Rudd, J S Wigglesworth
PMCID: PMC1627609  PMID: 7073306

Abstract

Oxygen embolus is thought to be a rare complication of mechanical ventilation in preterm infants. In the patient described there was clinical and radiological evidence of embolisation within the heart and great vessels, but at necropsy gas was seen only in the cerebral arteries.

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