Femoral arterial and venous catheterization for blood sampling, drug administration and conscious blood pressure and heart rate measurements

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 59, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Jespersen, Brian ^a   Knupp, Lauren ^a   Northcott, Carrie A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artery; Blood pressure; Blood sampling; Catheter; Femoral; Issue 59; Medicine; Rat; Surgery; Vein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856986729     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3496     Document Type: Article

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