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Published in: Critical Care 1/2004

01-02-2004 | Poster presentation

A 3-year experience of ultrasound-guided catheterization of internal jugular vein in an intensive care unit (ICU)

Authors: E Paramythiotou, I Poularas, A Kalogeromitros, I Atsalakis, A Douma, A Karabinis

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2004

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Ultrasound-guided catheterization of the internal jugular vein has proved to be of benefit especially for patients with specific problems such as those hospitalized in ICUs. Our purpose was to evaluate the usefulness of such a method compared with the landmarks method, when the former is performed by a senior intensivist trained in ultrasound for 1 year and recently taught the Doppler guidance method and the latter by experienced staff. …
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Title
A 3-year experience of ultrasound-guided catheterization of internal jugular vein in an intensive care unit (ICU)
Authors
E Paramythiotou
I Poularas
A Kalogeromitros
I Atsalakis
A Douma
A Karabinis
Publication date
01-02-2004
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2004
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc2538

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