Pulsed saline lavage causing venous air embolism in a patient with Paget's disease.
Pulsed saline lavage is used to prepare bony surfaces during joint replacement surgery. A patient is described in whom a venous air embolism occurred as a result of a combination of the increased vascularity of bone seen in Paget's disease and possible air entrainment in the lavage equipment.
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Department of Anaesthesia, Bradford Royal Infirmary.
D000368:Aged; D004618:Embolism, Air / Q000209:etiology*; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008297:Male; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000150:complications*; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation / Q000009:adverse effects*
D012965:Sodium Chloride