• Intensive care medicine · Jun 1998

    Case Reports

    Near fatal respiratory distress following massive ether intravenous injection.

    • B Lambermont, C Dubois, V Fraipont, L Radoux, and V D'Orio.
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Liege, Belgium. B.Lambermont@chu.ulg.ac.be
    • Intensive Care Med. 1998 Jun 1; 24 (6): 624625624-5.

    AbstractTo the best of our knowledge, no case of ether-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been published as yet. A 36-year-old female developed pneumonitis which showed all the characteristics of a chemical-associated ARDS due to intravenous self-administration of ether: the hemodynamic investigation demonstrated a normal blood flow pattern with low left-heart filling pressure while the anteroposterior roentgenogram evidenced disseminated bilateral lung edema. Advanced symptomatic respiratory support including inhaled nitric oxide and steroidal anti-inflammatory use was the treatment of choice.

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