Transesophageal Echocardiography for Verification of the Position of the Electrocardiographically-Placed Central Venous Catheter

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 457-461

  Ender, Joerg ^a   Erdoes, Gabor ^a   Krohmer, Eugen ^a   Olthoff, Derk ^a   Mukherjee, Chirojit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

central venous catheter; intra atrial electrocardiogram; positioning; TEE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650527540     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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