Near-fatal systemic oxygen embolism due to wound irrigation with hydrogen peroxide
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Near-fatal systemic oxygen embolism due to wound irrigation with hydrogen peroxide.
Shock and coma developed suddenly in a 54-year-old male undergoing irrigation of an infected and fistulous herniorrhaphy wound with 3% hydrogen peroxide (H202). Marked ST elevation was seen in almost all electrocardiogram (ECG) leads. Within one hour the patient recovered completely, and the ECG returned to normal. The mechanism of this occurrence was most likely widespread embolization of oxyg...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.58.681.448