Confirmation of the safety of central venous catheterisation in critically ill infants and children - The Baragwanath experience

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 5 SUPPL., 1996, Pages 603-606

  Luyt, David K ^a   Mathivha, L Rudo ^a   Litmanovitch, Menachem ^a   Dance, Melanie D ^a   Brown, Jacqui M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JUGULAR VEIN; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; JUGULAR VEINS; MEDICAL AUDIT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN;

EID: 0030133330     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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