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Chest clinic
Images in thorax
Power injector associated iatrogenic air embolism to the right heart
  1. Sunny Jhamnani,
  2. Julio A Panza
  1. Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sunny Jhamnani, Department of Medicine, Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving St NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA; Sunny.S.Jhamnani@medstar.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203770

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Air embolism is the entry of air into the vascular system and is usually associated with surgeries, trauma and central lines.1

A patient presented to the clinic with new onset atrial flutter and lower extremity oedema. The patient was admitted and within 24 h, the course became complicated by respiratory failure, requiring intubation and admission to the intensive care unit. A …

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Footnotes

  • Contributors SJ: idea conception, write-up, image acquisition. JAP: write-up and guidance/mentorship.

  • Competing interests None.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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