Pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax following block dissection of the neck

Abstract

I . Forty-seven cases of fatal spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage due to rupture of an intracranial aneurysm haw been studied.2. The pathology and clinical findings are described.3. The place of palliative surgery in the treatment of intracranial aneurysmal bleeding is discussed.

Some aspects of anaesthesia for head and neck surgery

“…They reported ten cases occurring in their hospital in one year ~but did not men~ the relative incidence. Akin and Smith (19) in 1952 reporl~ed eight cases with d 50 per cent mortality. Thomas and Hucks (10) reported four such incidents in thirty-seven radical neck dissections:…”