Chang C, Dughi J, Shitabata P, Johnson G, Coel M, McNamara J J
Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 96813.
Crit Care Med. 1988 Feb;16(2):141-3. doi: 10.1097/00003246-198802000-00009.
A clinical case of apparent air embolism through a radial artery line served as the impetus to conduct a study in primates to investigate the possibility of air embolism from the radial artery into the cerebral circulation. Using 133Xe cerebral scanning, we demonstrated that greater than 2 ml of air in the radial artery would result in retrograde passage of air into the vertebral system and then into the brain.
一例经桡动脉置管出现明显空气栓塞的临床病例促使我们在灵长类动物身上开展一项研究，以探究空气从桡动脉进入脑循环引发空气栓塞的可能性。通过使用氙133脑扫描，我们证明，桡动脉内超过2毫升的空气会导致空气逆行进入椎体系，进而进入大脑。
