Injuries and liability related to central vascular catheters: A closed claims analysis

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1411-1418

  Domino, Karen B ^a,b   Bowdle, T Andrew ^a   Posner, Karen L ^a   Spitellie, Pete H ^a   Lee, Lorri A ^a   Cheney, Frederick W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER EMBOLISM; CATHETER INJURY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; PULMONARY ARTERY RUPTURE; REIMBURSEMENT; VASCULAR ACCESS; WIRE EMBOLISM;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALPRACTICE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 2542488180     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200406000-00013     Document Type: Article

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