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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 9, 279-281, Copyright © 1962 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

An Unusual Complication of Closed-Chest Cardiac Massage

I. E. PURKIS M.B.B.S., F.F.A.R.C.S.1 and R. N. MAHABIR M.D.1

1 Departments of Anaesthesia and Medicine, Dalhousie University, and Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Successful resucitation from from an anoxia cardiac arrest in an asthmatic patient by closed chest cardiac massage was followed by a stove-in-chest syndrome. It is considered that this complication contributed to the death of the patient 36hours later.






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