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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

  1. Pain shock
  2. Cardiac infarction, cardiogenic shock
  3. Pulmonary fat embolism
  4. Acute anaemia
  5. Pulmonary thromboembolism
Correct answer

Pulmonary fat embolism

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