Cardiac Arrest During General Anesthesia - Report of 10 cases. |
Jong Hyun Lee, Se Jin Choi |
Department of Anesthesiology, Chungnam National University, College of Medicine, Daejon, Korea. |
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Abstract |
We heraby report 10 cases of cardiac arrest associated with general anesthesia at Chungnam Medical Center during the period of Jan. 1967 through June 1972 as follows. (1) Among 10 cases, 3 cases recovered without complications and 7 cases expired. (2) Two pediatric patients showed remarkable recovery with treatment. (3) The expired 7 cases had been in very poor physical condition and recovery from cardiac arrest was delayed. The cause of death in one case was presumed to be air embolism. |
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