Pulmonary venous air embolism following accidental patient laceration of a hemodialysis 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 patient inadvertently severed the distal few centimeters of an indwelling central venous catheter.
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