Journal article
Pulmonary artery catheter placement under transoesophageal echocardiography guidance.
- Rimensberger PC Department of Pediatrics, Hôpital des Enfants, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.
- Beghetti M
- 1999-04-06
Published in:
- Paediatric anaesthesia. - 1999
Adolescent
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Catheterization, Swan-Ganz
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Humans
Male
Monitoring, Physiologic
Postoperative Period
Pulmonary Artery
English
Despite correct positioning pulmonary artery catheters may be displaced accidentally. Repositioning may prove to be difficult, especially when high pulmonary artery pressures are present. After failure of usual placement methods, transoesophageal echocardiography was used to guide repositioning of a displaced Swan-Ganz catheter in the early postoperative course after cardiac surgery in a child. This technique proved to be useful in visualizing intracardiac catheter orientation and facilitating pulmonary artery catheter placement at bedside, avoiding transportation of a haemodynamically unstable patient.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1046/j.1460-9592.1999.9220307.x
- PMID 10189661
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.rero.ch/global/documents/5211
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