1979 Volume 39 Issue 4 Pages 465-468
A 39-year-old man was operated for the rupture of gastric and esophageal varices under anesthesia with nitrous oxide, oxygen and halothane, tachycardia and hypotension were occured during the surgical operation.
However, just after the operation, closed pneumothorax was diagnosed by the chest X-ray examination.
From this case, we recognized the importance of taking chest X-ray films prior to an emergency operation and the necessity of suspecting pneumothorax in the presense of a reflactory fall in PaO2 during general anesthesia.
