Cardiac arrest following ventilator fire: A rare cause

Cardiac arrest following ventilator fire: A rare cause

Operating room fires are rare events, but when occur they result in serious and sometimes fatal consequences. Anaesthesia ventilator fire leading to cardiac arrest is a rare incident and has not been reported. We report a near catastrophic ventilator fire leading to cardiac arrest in a patient under...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: K Nazeer Ahmed, Babu P Kattimani, Ramakanth Baloorkar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2012-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
Subjects:
Anaesthesia ventilator
carbon monoxide poisoning
cardiac arrest
operating room
subtotal thyroidectomy
Online Access:http://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2012;volume=56;issue=4;spage=405;epage=407;aulast=Ahmed

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http://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2012;volume=56;issue=4;spage=405;epage=407;aulast=Ahmed

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