Humming Is as Effective as Valsalva's Maneuver and Trendelenburg's Position for Ultrasonographic Visualization of the Jugular Venous System and Common Femoral Veins

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-77

  Lewin, Matthew R ^a   Stein, John ^a   Wang, Ralph ^a   Lee, Marsha M ^b   Kernberg, Martin ^a,d   Boukhman, Milana ^a   Hahn, In Hei ^c   Lewiss, Resa E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d EASTERN MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VEIN COMPLIANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 34250180540     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.01.024     Document Type: Article

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