TY - JOUR PY - 2003// TI - Internal carotid artery dissection after Heimlich maneuver JO - Annales Francaises d'Anesthesie et de Reanimation A1 - Rakotoharinandrasana, H. A1 - Petit, E. A1 - Dumas, P. A1 - Vandermarcq, P. A1 - Gil, R. A1 - Neau, J-Ph SP - 43 EP - 45 VL - 22 IS - 1 N2 - We report a case of cervical artery dissection following a Heimlich maneuver. Cervical artery dissections are at the present time well known and are sometimes associated with trivial traumas. However, to our knowledge, this complication of such maneuver was never reported in the literature. Pathophysiological mechanisms are discussed.

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