Air embolism of the pulmonary artery when opening the spinal canal

Abstracts. Surgery and X-ray therapy. Air embolism of the pulmonary artery during the opening of the spinal canal. Prof. SP Fedorov and others AS Vishnevsky (Zentr. F. Chir., 1930, No. 34) give three cases where, when the spinal cord was exposed at the level of I-V thoracic vertebrae, an air embolism of the pulmonary artery occurred.