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  • Title: [Heart arrest in cemented hip arthroplasty].
    Author: Ortega S, Ortega JP, Pascual A, Fraca C, García-Enguita MA, Arauzo P, Urieta-Solanas A.
    Journal: Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim; 2000 Jan; 47(1):31-5. PubMed ID: 10730088.
    Abstract:
    Hip arthroplasty is a common surgical intervention in our hospital practice, involving high perioperative risk related to patients age and multiple concomitant diseases. Hemodynamic complications described vary from slight hypotension during surgery to heart failure and sudden death, particularly if the operation involves a cemented femoral component. Because of the type of patients undergoing such operations (elderly patients, with osteoporosis and scarce cardiopulmonary reserve), the unclear origin of complications and the lack of consensus on what constitutes adequate monitoring during surgery, hip arthroplasty is problematic for the specialists involved. We report on five deaths during cemented hip arthroplasty; after reviewing the case history and autopsy report of one, we believe the events leading to death were triggered by massive pulmonary embolism.
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