Ultrasound for central venous cannulation - Are you trained to use it?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 450-451

  Harris, N ^a   Hodzovic, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; CANNULATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKILL; TRAINING; ULTRASOUND; ANESTHESIOLOGY; EDUCATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; WALES;

EID: 64149116729     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.05902.x     Document Type: Letter

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