Confirmatory Chest Radiographs after Central Line Placement: Are They Warranted?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1138-1141

  Puls, Larry E ^a   Twedt, Carrie Ann ^a   Hunter, James E ^a   Langan, Eugene M ^a   Crane, Martin ^a  

^a GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDICTION; SEDATION; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ACCESS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0642276209     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000053920.02489.A1     Document Type: Article

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