A prospective evaluation of the use of femoral venous catheters in critically ill adults

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1986-1989

  Durbec, Olivier ^a   Viviand, Xavier ^a   Potie, Frederic ^a   Vialet, Renaud ^a   Albanese, Jacques ^a   Martin, Claude ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Catheterization; Catheterization, central venous; Complications; Critical illness; Infection, catheter related; Thrombosis, venous

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN;

ADULT; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLEEDING; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; LEG PHLEBOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 0031469355     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199712000-00014     Document Type: Article

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