Intracardiac transvenous echocardiography is superior to both precordial Doppler and transesophageal echocardiography techniques for detecting venous air embolism and catheter-guided air aspiration

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-54

  Schäfer, Simon T ^a   Lindemann, Jochen ^a   Brendt, Peter ^a   Kaiser, Gernot ^a   Peters, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC TRANSVENOUS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENOUS AIR EMBOLISM;

ANIMALS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUCTION; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VEINS;

EID: 37549053964     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000289646.81433.28     Document Type: Article

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