Clinical review: Vascular access for fluid infusion in children

Critical Care

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 478-484

  Haas, Nikolaus A ^a,b  

^a THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Central venous access; Child; Epidermal nitoglycerine; Intraosseous; Transillumination; Venous cutdown

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; INFUSION FLUID;

AGE; AXILLARY VEIN; CANNULATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CHILD CARE; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMORAL VEIN; HEAT; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INFANT; INFUSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; VEIN PUNCTURE;

CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHILD; FEMORAL VEIN; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAOSSEOUS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; JUGULAR VEINS; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; VENOUS CUTDOWN;

EID: 11344293806     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc2880     Document Type: Review

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