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Letters to the Editor

The need for monitoring during endovascular vein harvesting

Department of Anaesthesiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Received 27 September 2007; accepted 10 October 2007.

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Key Words: Endoscopic vein harvest • Capnography • Transesophageal echocardiography

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We read with great interest the description of carbon dioxide embolism during endoscopic saphenous vein harvest reported by Potapov et al. [1]. It is well known that the procedure can cause hypercarbia [2] and there have been previous descriptions of carbon dioxide embolism [3] as . . . [Full Text of this Article]