Aberrant central venous catheter-bilateral superior vena cava

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Hsu, Kuo Feng ^a   Yeh, Chin Lung ^b   Huang, Guo Hsun ^a   Chang, Huang Ching ^a   Tang, Shou Hung ^a  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAOYUAN ARMED FORCES GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BLOOD GAS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; NOTE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PERSISTENT LEFT SUPERIOR VENA CAVA; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK, SEPTIC; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 78650825559     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31818c30d5     Document Type: Note

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