Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2004
A patient, aged 32, diagnosed with multiple injuries: closed craniocerebral injury, closed chest injury, closed right hip fracture. BP - 100/60 mm Hg, Рs - 124/min, RR - 28/min. 2 hours after skeletal extension under local anaesthesia with lidocaine, there appeared abrupt aggravation of the patients condition: developed face and neck cyanosis, BP - 60/40 mm Hg, HR - 160/min, RR - 44/min. What complication most probably aggravated the severity of multiple injuries?
Answer options
- Pain shock
- Cardiac infarction, cardiogenic shock
- Pulmonary fat embolism
- Acute anaemia
- Pulmonary thromboembolism
Correct answer
Pulmonary fat embolism
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