When ultrasound-guided catheterization is useless: Back to landmarks!

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Giraud, Raphaël ^a,b   Bendjelid, Karim ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; CANNULATION; CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HUMAN; LETTER; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; VASCULAR ACCESS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84904044354     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc13986     Document Type: Letter

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