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Case Reports in Pulmonology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 416360, 2 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/416360
Case Report

Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism Associated with Mechanical Ventilation and Deep Tracheal Aspiration

S. Gursoy, C. Duger, K. Kaygusuz, I. Ozdemir Kol, B. Gurelik, and C. Mimaroglu

Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, 58140 Sivas, Turkey

Received 2 April 2012; Accepted 27 June 2012

Academic Editors: A. X. Freire and K. Watanabe

Copyright © 2012 S. Gursoy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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