Utility of the routine chest X-ray after 'over-wire' venous catheter changes

American Surgeon

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1064-1065

  Riblet, Jeffrey L ^a,b   Shillinglaw, William ^a   Goldberg, Amy J ^a   Mitchell, Kevin ^a   Sedani, Khemraj H ^a   Davis, Frank E ^a   Reynolds, H Neal ^a  

^a Maryland Inst Emergency Med S   (United States)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 0029853208     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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