Usefulness of the external jugular vein examination in detecting abnormal central venous pressure in critically ill patients

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 2132-2137

  Vinayak, Ajeet G ^a,b   Levitt, Joseph ^a,c   Gehlbach, Brian ^a   Pohlman, Anne S ^a   Hall, Jesse B ^a   Kress, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESIDENT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33750336180     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.166.19.2132     Document Type: Article

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