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Air embolism after peripheral IV contrast injection

Justin Goodwin, MS and Karthik Gnanapandithan, MD, MS, FHM
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 718-720; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20001
Justin Goodwin
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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Karthik Gnanapandithan
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Internal Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
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