What is it about?
During performance of scopes to the uterus, it is usual to distend it with a fluid (glycine) which if escaped to the blood of the patient, it might cause a serious effects. In the reported case, it decreased serum sodium and calcium which needed immediate treatment
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Why is it important?
Combination of decrease in serum sodium and calcium is not recored before. The management was rapid, simple and successful.
Perspectives
This publication aimed to focus an attention of anesthesiologists about an unusual, but still important complication that might affect the patient safety.
Professor Sherif S Sultan
Faculty of Medicine, Ain-Shams University, Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management
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This page is a summary of: Combined hyponatremia and hypocalcemia after intravascular absorption of 1.5% glycine during operative hysteroscopy. A case report, Egyptian Journal of Anaesthesia, July 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.egja.2016.03.001.
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