Pulmonary venous air embolism following accidental patient laceration of ahemodialysis catheter

As the number of patients at home with indwelling central venous catheters increases, more complications from their use will present to the emergency department. We report a case of pulmonary venous air embolism after a patie nt inadvertently severed the distal few centimeters of an indwelling centra l venous catheter. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc.