Patient-controlled analgesia masking pulmonary embolus in a postoperative patient

Crit Care Med. 1992 Nov;20(11):1619-21. doi: 10.1097/00003246-199211000-00022.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Analgesia, Patient-Controlled / adverse effects*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Knee Joint / surgery
  • Middle Aged
  • Osteoarthritis / surgery
  • Pain, Postoperative / complications
  • Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy*
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnosis*
  • Pulmonary Embolism / complications
  • Pulmonary Embolism / diagnosis*