Clinical Manifestations and Treatment of Air Embolism
Air embolism is a disease with insidious onset,rapid development and high mortality.Because the most common etiologies are iatrogenic,early detection and appropriate treatments should be important for preventing the disease development.It is difficult to be diagnosed timely and correctly on account of the non typical clinical manifestations,so the diagnosis of air embolism represents a laborious challenge.This review will introduce the classification,pathological mechanism,clinical manifestation and treatment of air embolism,in order to promote physicians to understand the disease,so as to prevent it from further development,improve the prognosis of patients and reduce the fatality rate.Transesophageal echocardiography and end-tidal carbon dioxide can identify and timely diagnose air embolism.Therefor,the patients can be treated by terminating the source of air embolism,appropriate body position,high flow of pure oxygen inhalation and high pressure oxygen treatment in time.
air embolismgas embolismclassificationclinical manifestationdiagnosistreatment
万方数据
维普
