Clinical report of severe sequelae caused by air embolism during CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy

Computed tomography-guided percutaneous lung biopsy is highly important for the diagnosis and prognosis of peripheral space-occupying lesions in the lungs. This article focuses on a 57-year-old female who developed air embolism during percutaneous lung biopsy and discusses “a potential delay in optimizing the patient’s posture during the emergency response, which may have contributed to the progression of complications”. Although the patient was successfully resuscitated and recovered from a life-threatening condition after 5 months of multidisciplinary consultation and treatment, serious complications still had a considerable impact on the patient’s health.