Accurate placement of the right atrial air aspiration catheter: A descriptive study and prospective trial of intravascular electrocardiography

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 435-438

  Kerr, Randall H E ^a,b   Applegate II, Richard L ^a  

^a American Board of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746520750     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000223688.12751.b8     Document Type: Article

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