Entrapment of pulmonary artery catheter in a suture at the inferior vena cava cannulation site

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 557-559

  Huang, Liguang ^a   Elsharydah, Ahmad ^a,b   Nawabi, Atta ^a   Cork, Randall C ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheterization: complications, entrapment; pulmonary artery catheter; Swan Ganz catheter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; SWAN GANZ CATHETER;

AORTIC VALVE; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; SUTURES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 10044225683     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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