Intravenous Catheter Complications in the Hand and Forearm

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 123-127

  Kagel, Eric M ^a   Rayan, Ghazi M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter; Complications; Hand; Intravenous

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARM DISEASE; CELLULITIS; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; JOINT STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SKIN NECROSIS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; WRIST;

EID: 0842278688     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000058126.72962.74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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