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| Year : 2008 | Volume
: 12
| Issue : 3 | Page : 136--139 |
Successful management of massive intraoperative pulmonary fat embolism with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support
Suman Sarkar, Krutisundar Mandal, Prithwis Bhattacharya
Department of Anesthesiology, IMS Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 105, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Suman Sarkar
Department of Anesthesiology, IMS Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 105, Uttar Pradesh
India
DOI: 10.4103/0972-5229.43684 PMID: 19742250
We report a patient who sustained catastrophic pulmonary fat embolism, during open reduction, internal fixation (ORIF) of fracture femur' In our opinion, the use of percutaneous cardiopulmonary support with (PCPS), saved the patient from certain death.
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