Missing the guidewire: An avoidable complication

International Archives of Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Omar, Hesham R ^a,b   Fathy, Ahmed ^c   Mangar, Devanand ^b   Camporesi, Enrico ^d  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLLAPSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77956909894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17557682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-7682-3-21     Document Type: Article

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