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Help doctors! what're the treatments for air embolism from an iv?

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Dr. Klaus d Lessnau answered

Specializes in Pulmonary Critical Care

Easy: Put the patient into the left lateral position. Then the air will be floating above the right heart, and not inside.

Answered 1/22/2014

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Left side down: Time the oxygen and co2 clear quickly. Nitrogen is 80% and slower to absorb. But if it stays in the upside chambers, by lying on left sued, it will break up and go to lungs and be slowly absorbed. Unless IV on pump and large volume, risk is low.

Answered 6/10/2014

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