INTRACRANIAL GAS ON CT AFTER CARDIOPULMONARY-RESUSCITATION - 4 CASES

Authors
IMANISHI M NISHIMURA A TABUSE H MIYAMOTO S SAKAKI T IWASAKI S
Citation
M. Imanishi et al., INTRACRANIAL GAS ON CT AFTER CARDIOPULMONARY-RESUSCITATION - 4 CASES, Neuroradiology, 40(3), 1998, pp. 154-157
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging","Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Neuroradiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00283940
Volume
40
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
154 - 157
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3940(1998)40:3<154:IGOCAC>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We report four patients in whom gas was seen in the head on CT shortly after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The gas was in the posterior cra nial fossa, presumably within veins, or in the cavernous sinus. The ca use of the cardiac arrest was myocardial infarction in three patients and hanging in one. All had peripheral or central venous lines. The me chanism by which gas appeared in the intracranial veins is discussed.