Forensic medicine in images
Iatrogenic gas embolism
Embolismo gaseoso iatrogénico
Mercè Subirana-Domènech
, Diego Anglada-Gotor, Helena Martínez-Alcázar
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Centro de Patología Forense de Barcelona, Institut de Medicina Legal i Ciències Forenses de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
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When the endovenous catheters were removed, one of the lines from the nebulizer compressor was found to be directly connected to the serum, and this originated the gaseous embolism.</p><p id="p0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">During the external examination of the autopsy, we found massive emphysema with blisters on the lower limbs, and internal examination found multiple bubbles in the vascular tree (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0005">Fig. 1</a>). Histopathological study revealed a poorly differentiated epidermoid carcinoma, ganglion metastasis, and visually empty pulmonary vessels resulting from the gaseous emphysema.</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="f0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This case highlights the importance of medical–legal autopsies in the evaluation of medical praxis.</p><p id="p0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Injection of air into a vein or artery may occur accidently during clinical procedures.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bb0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">,</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bb0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> The lethal dose is from 3–5 ml/Kg or 300–500 ml of gas injected at 100 ml/s.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bb0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a></p><p id="p0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">No case similar to the one described was found in the bibliographical review we performed. We found experimentally that it is extraordinarily difficult to directly connect the compressor to the serum, as the fit is not good and a certain degree of leakage occurs. It was therefore impossible to calculate the exact amount of gas that had been injected.</p><p id="p0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Cases such as this one show that care services must be instructed not to remove devices or catheters, etc. used in giving care. We have to admit that if the hospital staff had not explained the causal mechanism, it would have been very difficult to diagnose the cause of the embolism.</p></span>" "pdfFichero" => "main.pdf" "tienePdf" => true "fechaRecibido" => "2022-10-06" "fechaAceptado" => "2023-02-11" "NotaPie" => array:1 [ 0 => array:2 [ "etiqueta" => "☆" "nota" => "<p class="elsevierStyleNotepara" id="np4005">Please cite this article as: Subirana-Domènech M, Anglada-Gotor D, Martínez-Alcázar H. Embolismo gaseoso iatrogénico. Revista Española de Medicina Legal. 2023. <span class="elsevierStyleInterRef" id="ir3005" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reml.2023.02.001">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reml.2023.02.001</span>.</p>" ] ] "multimedia" => array:1 [ 0 => array:8 [ "identificador" => "f0005" "etiqueta" => "Fig. 1" "tipo" => "MULTIMEDIAFIGURA" "mostrarFloat" => true "mostrarDisplay" => false "figura" => array:1 [ 0 => array:4 [ "imagen" => "gr1.jpeg" "Alto" => 748 "Ancho" => 986 "Tamanyo" => 143207 ] ] "detalles" => array:1 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "al0005" "detalle" => "Fig. " "rol" => "short" ] ] "descripcion" => array:1 [ "en" => "<p id="sp0005" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">(a) Emphysematous body. (b) Blisters on the lower limbs. 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