Unusual site of guide-wire entrapment during central venous catheterization

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 139-141

  Hoda, Muhammad Qamarul ^a   Das, Gurmukh ^a   Mamsa, Khadija Ahmed ^a   Salimullah, Hameedullah ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERFORATION; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LABORATORY TEST; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ADULT; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MEDICAL ERRORS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 33646371718     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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