Physician-performed ultrasound can accurately screen for a vulnerable intercostal artery prior to chest drainage procedures

Respirology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 942-947

  Salamonsen, Matthew ^a   Dobeli, Karen ^a   McGrath, David ^a   Readdy, Craig ^a   Ware, Robert ^b   Steinke, Karin ^a   Fielding, David ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasonography; intercostal artery; intercostal catheter; pleural effusion; thoracentesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; CHEST TUBE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL ARTERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX DRAINAGE;

DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; INTERCOSTAL ARTERY; INTERCOSTAL CATHETER; PLEURAL EFFUSION; THORACENTESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLES; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACOSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84880820966     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/resp.12088     Document Type: Article

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