title: [Clinical case of the month. Cerebral air embolism arising during a procedure of thermocoagulation of a bronchial epidermoid carcinoma in situ by fiberscopy].
abstract: Patient aged 48 years followed for COPD evolutionary stage 3 according to the GOLD classification. In the waning of a unifocal lung, bronchial endoscopy performed to bacteriological referred highlights a squamous cell carcinoma in situ. During an endoscopic re-evaluation and treatment by local thermocoagulation, the patient experienced a massive cerebral embolism. Despite treatment with hyperbaric oxygen therapy and resuscitation care, he died in an array of postanoxic coma and acute renal failure in a tank.
authors.affiliation: Service des Soins Intensifs et Anesthésie, GHDC, Gilly, Belgium.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mimy
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nackers
mesh_terms: D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D004564:Electrocoagulation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004618:Embolism, Air / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D020766:Intracranial Embolism / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged