Despite increasing awareness of the clinical incidence of venous air embolism, the pathophysiology of the resultant cardiovascular collapse is still obscure. Since venous air emboli frequently result from gradual aspiration of air into a vein opened surgically, slow infusion (0.01 to 2.00 mg/kg/min)
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Adornato et al. (1978) studied this question.