This report poses serious questions about the safety of lipid-free propofol.

) monit-ored from the left index finger de-creased to 78–80% (compared with96–98% on the right side). The leftforearm and hand were swollen, duskyblue and cold. There was a retrogradeflow of blood into the intravenousgiving set. The intravenous infusion inthe left forearm was discontinued and anew line started on the right hand.Efforts to flush the cannula in the leftforearm were unsuccessful, but onaspiration, a 5 cm blood clot wasremoved. Heparin 10 000 IU wasinjected as a bolus and an intravenousinfusion of 5% dextrose with nitrogly-cerine at a rate of 5–8 lg.min