Cardiac arrest from intravenous indigo carmine during laparoscopic surgery -A case report-.
Indigo carmine (sodium indigotindisulfonate) is a safe, biologically inactive blue dye routinely administered intravascularly during urologic and gynecologic procedures to localize the ureteral orifices and to identify severed ureters and fistulous communications. We report a case of hypotension, cardiac arrest, and cerebral ischemia after the administration of indigo carmine in a patient under total laparoscopic hysterectomy.
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital, Busan, Korea.
Won-Jae
WJ
Lee
Hyun-Soo
HS
Jang