Insertion of femoral-vein catheters for practice by medical house officers during cardiopulmonary resuscitation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 341, Issue 27, 1999, Pages 2088-2091

  Kaldjian, Lauris C ^a,e   Wu, Barry J ^b   Jekel, James F ^c   Kaldjian, Eric P ^d   Duffy, Thomas P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

^c GRIFFIN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

^e ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMORAL VEIN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; RESUSCITATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

AUTONOMY; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; CONNECTICUT; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; SURVEY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BENEFICENCE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONNECTICUT; DATA COLLECTION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY;

EID: 0033619931     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199912303412711     Document Type: Article

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