Profiles in patient safety: Misplaced femoral line guidewire and multiple failures to detect the foreign body on chest radiography

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 658-662

  Lum, Timothy E ^a   Fairbanks, Rollin J ^a,b   Pennington, Elliot C ^a   Zwemer, Frank L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine radiology; Human engineering; Medical errors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOREIGN BODY; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SAFETY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ADULT; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; PULMONARY EDEMA; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 20444447745     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.02.014     Document Type: Article

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