The advantages of a precisions-engineered securement device for fixation of arterial pressure-monitoring catheters

JAVA - Journal of the Association for Vascular Access

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 130-132

  Stephenson, Catherine ^a  

^a Bay Medical Center Panama City   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT MONITORING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

EID: 26444594926     PISSN: 10830081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2309/java.10-3-8     Document Type: Article

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