Central venous access: Accidental arterial puncture in a patient with right-sided aortic arch

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1025-1026

  Ricci, Marco ^a,b   Puente, Anibal O ^a   Gusmano, Flavia ^a   LaRaja, Raymond ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CABRINI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial puncture; Carotid artery; Central venous access; Complications; Hemothorax; Jugular vein; Pneumothorax; Radiography; Right sided aortic arch; Venipuncture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0032993975     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199905000-00053     Document Type: Article

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